When Adam D. from Killswitch Engage won over $50,000 in prizes on The Price is Right, the metal world went crazy – now that the high of that experience has come down for the guitarist himself, reports are now saying he will likely have to give it all away. Not because he wants to, but…
Local governments are known to pursue revenue opportunities by any means necessary even if it means misrepresenting their own laws. In Grosse Ile, Michigan, fine-happy bureaucrats have doled out numerous threats and tickets to a resident. Why? He parked is RV in the wrong place on his property. Unfortunately for Thomas Buckhart, the township’s request…
by Jose Nino Currently, Venezuela is one of the most notable case studies of the failures of socialism and interventionist economic models. An oil rich country that enjoyed high levels of economic growth and stability from Post World War II to the 1980s, it is now descending into veritable Banana Republic status. Plagued by high…
By Katie Frates Alaska, North Dakota and Texas face a dramatic drop in revenue heading into 2015 because of plunging oil prices, which hit a six-year low Monday. The price of oil — recently $100 a barrel — dropped below $50 a barrel Monday for the first time since April, 2009, reported The Wall Street Journal….
By Connor D. Wolf Unions love raising the minimum wage, so long as they are exempt. A new report, “Labor’s Minimum Wage Exemption,” by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce found many labor unions are exempt from the various local minimum wage laws they support for everyone else. “Not all minimum wage increases come in the same…
FOX 10 News | fox10phoenix.com PHOENIX, AZ – If you’re looking for cheap gas, drive no further than Phoenix, Arizona, where you can spend $1.99 a gallon. The only catch for that station is that you have to pay cash. Prices at the pump are dropping due to the laws of supply and demand. We’ve…
America is the world’s 2nd largest welfare state! Did people really not know that? Or is everyone as stupid as Jonathan Gruber said we are? Today’s episode of the Freedom Report podcast features Austrian economist and professor Steve Horwitz to break down the numbers. Today’s show takes a look at this article titled: “Which country has…
By Connor D. Wolf The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) released a study Monday showing employment for low-skilled workers falls as the minimum wage goes up. The study, titled “The Minimum Wage and The Great Recession,” looked at the impact of three federal minimum wages increases that occurred between 2007 and 2009. It found that during that…
By Blake Neff Published: December 6, 2014 Famous nationwide as a bastion of liberalism, the University of California-Berkeley has chosen to ignore a local ordinance raising the minimum wage, claiming an exemption as a state agency. California’s minimum wage is $9 an hour for all workers, but on October 1 the city Berkeley implemented a…
By Connor D. Wolf Published: December 5, 2014 A union-backed labor organization put on a nationwide protest of fast food workers to demand at $15 minimum wage Thursday.The protest was organized by Fight for 15, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). They advocate for higher wages and better working conditions for fast…