Daily Economy News
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New Yorkers Pick Up the Tab for Construction Pensions
Over the past 10 years, prevailing wages earned by New York public construction workers have almost doubled the rate of inflation. There is just one problem. Most of the increase didn’t go into their pockets.
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What Is a Price?
The large drop in financials of all sorts – both conventional and crypto – have people wondering what went wrong. What could have triggered this stunning sell off? What has spooked the markets? When there are no obvious answers, and there really aren’t this time around, it tempts people to believe that markets themselves are…
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A Bill to Ease California’s Housing Shortage
Citizens care about rents, and legislators will continue to bring bills to alleviate them until the pressure is gone. This bill would ease a variety of restrictions on properties near transit stations and bus stops with frequent service.
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Tax Havens Put EU States to Shame
In the face of true economic competition, the European Union is showing increasingly totalitarian tendencies toward those who offer better economic conditions than its member states.
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Central Bank or Not, Fractional-Reserve Bitcoin Violates Sound Money
A common misconception is that the only problem with current money is the central bank, and that once we abolish government control everything is going to be fine. However, a sound-money regime has to provide for the consistent time structure of property rights in money.
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Socialists Must Own Up to Venezuela
So long as there are those who believe in socialism, we will always run the risk that they will do to us what their ideological brethren did to Venezuela.
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Bettina Bien Greaves, Faithful Servant of History
She had a beautiful and blunt way about her, never sugar-coating the history but always inspired by an ideal she fell in love with and never gave up: the idea that human freedom is the right principle for the good society.
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Feds Mandate Infrastructure Wages, Line Union Pockets
Market advocates have a golden opportunity to not only reign in federal spending but to introduce much-needed privatization in the infrastructure sector.
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Teacher Pensions Divert Resources from School Maintenance
Politicians who ignore pension reform, sapping funds from facilities maintenance, should be replaced. These are real choices for school boards and for taxpayers, between accountability for maintenance and deterioration through thousands of little instances of neglect — choices that could avert situations like the one we see in Baltimore.
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Ban on Tide Pods Would Epitomize Nanny State
Although it’s obvious that eating laundry detergent, drinking way too much sugar, or consistently throwing away plastic isn’t good for you or the environment, it isn’t the job of the government to tell us what to do or how to live.
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New Yorkers Pick Up the Tab for Construction Pensions
Over the past 10 years, prevailing wages earned by New York public construction workers have almost doubled the rate of inflation. There is just one problem. Most of the increase didn’t go into their pockets.
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•
What Is a Price?
The large drop in financials of all sorts – both conventional and crypto – have people wondering what went wrong. What could have triggered this stunning sell off? What has spooked the markets? When there are no obvious answers, and there really aren’t this time around, it tempts people to believe that markets themselves are…
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A Bill to Ease California’s Housing Shortage
Citizens care about rents, and legislators will continue to bring bills to alleviate them until the pressure is gone. This bill would ease a variety of restrictions on properties near transit stations and bus stops with frequent service.
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•
Tax Havens Put EU States to Shame
In the face of true economic competition, the European Union is showing increasingly totalitarian tendencies toward those who offer better economic conditions than its member states.
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•
Central Bank or Not, Fractional-Reserve Bitcoin Violates Sound Money
A common misconception is that the only problem with current money is the central bank, and that once we abolish government control everything is going to be fine. However, a sound-money regime has to provide for the consistent time structure of property rights in money.
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•
Socialists Must Own Up to Venezuela
So long as there are those who believe in socialism, we will always run the risk that they will do to us what their ideological brethren did to Venezuela.
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•
Bettina Bien Greaves, Faithful Servant of History
She had a beautiful and blunt way about her, never sugar-coating the history but always inspired by an ideal she fell in love with and never gave up: the idea that human freedom is the right principle for the good society.
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•
Feds Mandate Infrastructure Wages, Line Union Pockets
Market advocates have a golden opportunity to not only reign in federal spending but to introduce much-needed privatization in the infrastructure sector.
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•
Teacher Pensions Divert Resources from School Maintenance
Politicians who ignore pension reform, sapping funds from facilities maintenance, should be replaced. These are real choices for school boards and for taxpayers, between accountability for maintenance and deterioration through thousands of little instances of neglect — choices that could avert situations like the one we see in Baltimore.
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•
Ban on Tide Pods Would Epitomize Nanny State
Although it’s obvious that eating laundry detergent, drinking way too much sugar, or consistently throwing away plastic isn’t good for you or the environment, it isn’t the job of the government to tell us what to do or how to live.