Physical wallets are becoming obsolete. For instance, my money clip hasn’t seen much action in cold, hard cash for quite some time. And recently when I was hanging out with some friends, I never touched my credit cards as both orderings and paying for the meal were done only through my ...
The 27-member European Union has agreed to a partial ban on Russian oil in a move that will affect 75 percent of its imports now and 90 percent by the end of the year. The bloc had originally proposed to impose an immediate and full embargo on all Russian imported oil but had to settle for a ...
The Food and Drug Administration’s recently announced proposal to ban menthol cigarettes is ill advised on multiple fronts. Not only does this proposal make no economic sense but it also fails to recognize a simple fact: People in a free society should be free to choose their poison. The ...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 841,000 Americans have died of drug overdoses since 1999. In 2019 alone, 49,860 people were killed by opioid-related overdoses — 70.6 percent of all drug overdose deaths. This was before COVID-19, which almost certainly accelerated ...
In recent months, much of the green lobby has been focussing its ire on palm oil. If it were up to the lobby, importing and using this common vegetable oil would be banned overnight. In fact, the European Union has already done something similar, and is working on a total palm oil import ban. ...
When workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, won their April 2022 union election, they also scored a major victory for the broader labor movement. Winning a union election is unnecessarily difficult, and this first union election win for U.S. Amazon workers could be a ...
