4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (375+ words) Home – California Politics & News – California Has the Nation’s Highest Gas Prices—Who’s to Blame? California families pay nearly $1.70 more per gallon of gas than the national average, according to data from AAA. The average price for a gallon of regular…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (666+ words) Home – Economy News – There’s No Crystal Ball for the Economy Pew Research reports what any precinct captain could have told you for the price of a beer: affordability, not abstraction, is what voters carry into the ballot box this fall....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (340+ words) Home – Federal Reserve News – Trump Suggests He Won’t Try to Talk Warsh Out of Rate Hike President Donald Trump declined to criticize Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh for suggesting he might raise interest rates, instead saying he trusts his appointee…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago   (829+ words) Home – Economy News – Common Good Versus Stakeholder Capitalism Amid the on-going debates about capitalism, it is worthwhile to flesh out some distinctions between common good capitalism and stakeholder capitalism. Let’s start with some definitions. Capitalism is generally associated with free…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (325+ words) Home – Inflation News – US Consumer Prices Increase as Expected in July U.S. consumer prices increased slightly in July, potentially weakening the argument for an interest rate increase from the Federal Reserve next month. The Consumer Price Index edged up…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (610+ words) Home – Free Market News – The Value and Virtues of Free Enterprise Socialism is on the rise, and capitalism is on its back foot. The implications span all parts of our society but certainly include corporate governance. As is often the…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (460+ words) Home – Political News – US Nonfarm Payrolls Unexpectedly Decline in July; Unemployment Rate Eases to 4.1% The U.S. economy unexpectedly shed jobs in July and nonfarm payrolls for the prior two months were revised sharply lower, raising questions about whether the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (586+ words) Home – U.S. Senate News – Tipping the Scales: How Washington Pays Mega Farms to Beat Family Farms Connor Semelsberger | Katelynn Healy Like many subsidy programs, the current system of crop insurance, commodity price and income support, and disaster assistance programs boost…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (735+ words) Home – Inflation News – Two Ways to Fix Inflation Housing affordability is awful, and it looks set to get worse. Unless, of course, we take corrective action, especially on immigration and war. Here’s the harsh current reality: Inflation continues to bedevil…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (614+ words) Home – Socialism News – The Case for Capitalism I make the case for free markets … young people elect socialists! What are they thinking? Do they even think? Do they pay any attention to history? Or economics? Socialism always fails. Only markets…...