Will wage transparency reduce or eliminate the pay gap between men and women? Yes and no. Let’s take the no side first. Wage transparency will not reduce or eliminate this pay gap because it emanates from real differences in productivity (actually discounted marginal...
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No, Tax Cuts Don’t Cause Inflation
by Daniel Lacalle | Dec 14, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
The narrative to attack any tax cut and defend any increase in government size is reaching feverish levels. However, we must continue to remind citizens that constantly bloating government spending and increasing the size of monetary interventions are some of the...
Don’t Blame Private Police for Public Errors
by Walter E. Block | Sep 26, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
There have been many calls of late to “defund the police.” None of them have been aimed at the private police. All of them have been targeted at the public sector, governmental police. Are these demands justified? Not very. Yes, there are more than a few bad apples in...
What a 40-Year Inflationary Peak Is Doing to Your Wages
by Ryan McMaken | Dec 15, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
According to new data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, price inflation in November rose to the highest level recorded in nearly forty years. According to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for November, year-over-year price inflation rose to 6.8 percent....
Mikhail Gorbachev: If War is the Consequence of a Policy, Then Get Rid of the Policy!
by Scott Horton | Apr 2, 2020 | Blog
Reading this great article by the last leader of the USSR is a stark reminder of just how unnecessary and dangerous the new Cold War with Russia is. Are you really ready to risk extinguishing your entire civilization in the name of some lousy Lockheed profits and...
‘They Dumped Him Like Trash’: Palestinian With Suspected Coronavirus Symptoms Thrown Out of Israel
by Scott Horton | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog
From Middle Easy Eye: It was like a scene straight out of a horror film. That's how 25-year-old Ibrahim Abu Safiya described the moment he saw someone lying on the ground near an Israeli checkpoint on the outskirts of Beit Sira village, west of Ramallah. "We...
I Think I Finally “Get” The Economy
by Zack Sorenson | Dec 12, 2019 | Blog
So more big Fed cash floods into the market? Back during QE2 you had partisan hack Krugman rationalizing it all (though QE had little to do with his Keynesian philosophy). Guys like Bob Murphy were saying, "Yep, this is it, get ready for the inflation." And then it...
How Socialized Medicine Kills The Patient & Robs The Taxpayer
by Thomas DiLorenzo | Oct 22, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics
[Editor's Note: The following is excerpted from Thomas DiLorenzo's book The Problem with Socialism] When it comes to something as important as healthcare, the last thing anyone should want is for the entire system to become a government-run monopoly. [...] In fact,...
All Our High-tech Weapons May Not Help Win Wars but At Least They Are Creating Jobs
by Steven Woskow | Aug 19, 2019 | Blog
Or maybe not says Nia Harris and Cassandra Simpson at Lobelog. So where is all that additional taxpayer money actually going, if not job creation? At least part of the answer is contractor profits and soaring CEO salaries. In those six years, Lockheed’s stock...
Women’s Soccer is a Financial Loser
by Matt Knight | Aug 6, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
On July 29, 2019, U.S. Soccer president Carlos Cordeiro released an open letter and fact sheet addressed to “Friends, Colleagues and Supporters of U.S. Soccer.” Though he spends much of the letter emphasizing the organization’s commitment to “equal pay for equal...
Trump to Athletes: You Didn’t Build That
by Mark D. Zarella | Sep 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
It might not be a race issue and it’s certainly not a free speech issue. An employer should have every right to negotiate the terms of employment with the employee, which may include not being allowed to protest at work. The NFL has made it against the rules for...
Trump to Athletes: You Didn't Build That
by Mark D. Zarella | Sep 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
It might not be a race issue and it’s certainly not a free speech issue. An employer should have every right to negotiate the terms of employment with the employee, which may include not being allowed to protest at work. The NFL has made it against the rules for...
Illinois Overwhelmingly Approves Bill to Protect the Innocent from Civil Forfeiture
by Nick Sibilla | Jun 25, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
Today, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a bill that bolsters transparency for civil forfeiture and strengthens due process protections for innocent property owners. Under civil forfeiture, law enforcement agencies can seize and then take title to cash,...
IN Police Spent $400K in Forfeiture Funds on Salaries & Benefits
by Nick Sibilla | Mar 1, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
Federal Audit: Indiana Agencies Spent $400,000 in Forfeiture Funds on Salaries, Benefits Indiana law enforcement spent over $400,000 in federal asset forfeiture funds to pay the salaries, overtime and fringe benefits for its officers, according to a federal audit...
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Military Conscription is Slavery: Woodrow Wilson Edition
By the guidelines set down by the Selective Service Act, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register to potentially be selected for military service. At the request of the War Department, Congress amended the law in August 1918 to expand the age range to include...
The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
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