“This is where the story becomes quite curious. The new bill will reduce output for all brewers except for one: the new Guinness Brewery being built in southwest Baltimore.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/a-beer-war-is-brewing-in-maryland/
“States with the largest expansion of Medicaid also saw the highest increase in opioid overdose deaths. Medicaid schemes pumped opioids into communities and got doctors and pill pushers rich in the process.”
Read more: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/how-medicaid-funds-and-fuels-the-opioid-epidemic/
“Politicians in the winning country are often not around when taxpayers foot the bill more than half a decade later. The Olympics exhibit many qualities which are endorsed by free-market capitalism, actively promoting individualism, international cooperation, and excellence through competition. Why, then, do we continue the tradition of outlandish public spending on them?”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/the-big-losers-at-the-olympics-are-the-host-nations/
“The good news is that the recently passed Republican tax reform package partially shifted the country to a territorial tax system. The bad news is that it only benefits companies.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/02/12/americas-punishing-worldwide-t
“A private, for-profit law firm called Silver and Wright was hired by Indio in 2014 to serve as the city’s official prosecutor for code enforcement cases. The firm’s pitch was appealing. It offered ‘cost neutral or even revenue producing’ prosecution services, so long as the city changed its ordinances to allow the firm to bill property owners for its full attorneys fees.”
“Someone started arbitrarily and aggressively buying stocks and the decline was halved. Monday will still go down as a Wall Street massacre, but that anonymous superhero buyer or buyers made it a lot less bloody. Who was the market’s superhero? I’m going to tell you a story and then you decide.”
“The city’s actions demonstrate how far governments will go to violate constitutional rights if meaningful judicial checks are not there to stop them. Charlestown’s mayor, Bob Hall, has long wanted to destroy Pleasant Ridge—where people can rent a home or pay a mortgage for a very affordable price. And so he teamed up with a Louisville businessman, John Neace, to hatch the following scheme.”
Read more: http://ij.org/ll/february-2018-volume-27-issue-1/victory-homeowners-charlestown/
“The court ruled that the $3 million in fines stolen from drivers with no due process was all obtained illegally and they must now pay it back.”
“When it comes to repair, farmers have always been self reliant. But the modernization of tractors and other farm equipment over the past few decades has left most farmers in the dust thanks to diagnostic software that large manufacturers hold a monopoly over. In this episode of State of Repair, Motherboard goes to Nebraska to talk to the farmers and mechanics who are fighting large manufacturers like John Deere for the right to access the diagnostic software they need to repair their tractors.”
Not long after last year’s ‘Nuclear Posture Review’, in which top American officials insisted world peace depended upon a massive nuclear rearmament program, and after two major nuclear strike false alarms in Hawaii and Japan, US media is now instilling further panic with two new rumors: that of a long-range North Korean missile strike, and that of a Russian ‘doomsday’ nuclear torpedo attack on the US coastlines.
This could be surmised from the nuclear paradox. It tells us that nuclear armament incentivizes the nuclear armament of existing geopolitical competitors, while at the same time incentivizing interventionism against non-nuclear states through increasing their perceived costs of resistance.
The beneficiaries in this seemingly zero-sum game? Arms manufacturers, of course, but also US uranium producers, who in a complete coincidence are currently agitating for protection from foreign competition.