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Over-the-counter hearing aids can’t come soon enough

It has been five years since Congress ordered federal regulators to develop regulations that will allow for hearing aids to be sold over the counter. Yet people today still can’t purchase them. A bipartisan group of senators wants to change that. In April, a quartet led by Chuck Grassley, ...

New developments on the antitrust front

Over the last few months, lawmakers in the House and Senate have considered a slate of antitrust proposals that would do everything from enshrining the consumer welfare standard into law to forcibly breaking up big tech companies. Despite many bills under consideration, Congress is yet to pass ...

Adapting to reliance on imports of battery metals is dangerous

Of all the serious issues surrounding U.S. energy resources, few are more important to America than the one the Biden administration is sidestepping. The need for a new mining policy to end our dependence on China for lithium and other crucial raw materials. Although lithium is critically ...

Prepare for blackouts across the U.S. as summer takes hold

Just when it didn’t seem things couldn’t get worse — gasoline at $5 to $8 a gallon, supply shortages in everything from baby formula to new cars — comes the devastating news that many of us will endure electricity blackouts this summer. The alarm was sounded by the nonprofit North ...

Farewell to easy European money

Earlier this year, sky-high inflation forced the Federal Reserve to slam the monetary policy brakes. The same appears to be happening in Europe, where the European Central Bank (ECB) is being forced to reverse course to contend with inflation at the highest level since the euro’s 1999 ...

We’re all more like Amber and Johnny than we’d like to believe

It’s tabloid fodder at its most primal. But the case reflects our own natural, moral minds. If you spend any time in our most esteemed forums for debate and civil discourse — YouTube comment sections and Twitter threads — you get the sense that the case between actor Johnny Depp and his ...