Archives for September 2015

In 2011, Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders tackled a dire issue – this was a time of the financial crisis, intense budget battles and numerous wars around the world – and that would be souvenirs sold at the Smithsonian gift shop. Sanders was enraged that the Smithsonian gift shop sold American souvenirs, such as t-shirts, […]

Feminists everywhere, and even those who pretend to be feminists like Hillary Clinton, are demanding gender equality in law, medicine, executive positions, politics and the list goes on. But what about jobs that come with a high level of fatal injuries? Probably not. Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) posted this very interesting […]

There is no price inflation if you live on a bench in a park. There is no other way to put it: rents are spiking (SEE: Price Inflation: U.S. rents not slowing down, spike 3.5% in May), and there is no slowing down. New research from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) and […]

Here are eight stories to read today: 1. Clinton’s Tweet on High Drug Prices Sends Biotech Stocks Down 2. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Prepares Large Property Tax Hike 3. Behind Carly Fiorina’s 30,000 HP layoffs 4. Top 1% of Harvard grads richer than America’s 1% 5. The Economics of Hillary Clinton 6. 100 Years of […]

Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner and billionaire real estate mogul, took part in a Twitter Q&A session called #asktrump. He answered questions in his typical vague fashion, but it one area he was definitive. Trump was asked by one Twitter user if he would “forgo the presidential salary if elected.” Trump responded that he would […]