Kathryn Watson Only a mile expanse across the Connecticut River separates Lebanon, N.H., from White River Junction of Bernie Sanders’ deep-blue Vermont. Bustling stores line the New Hampshire shore where there is no sales or income tax. About the only notable highlights on the desolate Vermont side are a courthouse and railroad. It’s a grim…
Connor D. Wolf Popeyes President Cheryl Bachelder blasted her competitors recently for making a big deal out of minimum wage increases, but, according to some experts, the critique disregards certain businesses more likely to be adversely impacted. In her criticism, Bachelder argued every business has to deal with minimum wage increases, so its just a matter…
Rachel Stoltzfoos Unemployment hit 5 percent in October and the economy added 270,000 jobs in an unexpectedly strong showing that is good news for the White House. But wages are stagnant, more than 95 million Americans are not working, and the federal debt is soaring. President Barack Obama recently boasted he and his Democrat allies have “pulled the United States…
From Bankable Insight By Charles Seeburger Whether it’s Black Market or Legal, Weed is a Serious Cash Crop From the legal markets thriving in states like Colorado and Washington, to the underground trade that generates billions of Mexican cartels, the economics of weed are crazy. Ganja. Smoke. Dro. Chronic. Spliffage. The names are as varied…
Blake Neff Just a couple months ago, Bernie Sanders lambasted Uber as an “unregulated” company with “serious problems,” but financial disclosures by the Democratic presidential candidate reveal that whenever his campaign requires a taxi, they literally always turn to Uber. According to research done by National Journal, 100 percent of Sanders’ spending on taxi and…
From Hypeline.org By Stephen Rowe If you are talking to a person of the Left, they are quick to point out climate change yet will dismiss all economics behind their policies. They are quick to demand higher wages while forgetting the business owners. Our country doesn’t run on unicorns and pixie dust, it is powered…
Steve Birr It only took a month for electric car sales to drop 90 percent after a 15 year old tax credit for electric car buyers expired in Georgia. The $5,000 subsidy for electric vehicles expired last June and has gutted the electric sector, reducing popular green models like the Chevy Volt to single digit…
Steve Birr Cracks are emerging in the U.S. economy as economic growth dipped in the third quarter report released Thursday, marking slower growth than 2014 and renewing fears that the seven year recovery is faltering. Gross domestic product (GDP) rose at just a meager 1.5 percent, a stark drop from the second quarter’s 3.9 percent…
Connor D. Wolf An advocacy group out of Modesto, Calif. pushing for a $15 an hour minimum wage posted a job ad Thursday offering to pay $12 an hour. Below what it is demanding others pay their workers. The Craigslist post was for a job opening at the local Fight for $15 campaign. On the…
Connor D. Wolf Seattle, which recently passed a $15 minimum wage, has seen the loss of 700 restaurant jobs despite the rest of the state seeing huge increases, according to a Wednesday report. In its report, the American Enterprise Institute looked at restaurant job growth in both Seattle and the rest of Washington. The state…