The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Colombia Tolima Los Brasiles Peaberry Organic coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • All the arguments for Trump’s tariffs are wrong and bad: The President’s defenders are flailing. (Noahpinion) • Nobody Knows (Yet Again): I want to point out that there are no experts on the subject at hand. Economists have analytical tools and theories to apply, but no economist and no […]
Last October, the Supreme Court revived a federal civil rights lawsuit by Laredo, Texas, news vlogger Priscilla Villarreal, who was literally arrested for asking questions—a flagrant violation of the First Amendment. The justices remanded the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, which yesterday killed her case again. Judge Edith Jones, who wrote the 2024 decision that rejected Villarreal’s lawsuit the last time around, is also the author of Tuesday’s ruling in Villarreal v. […]
Patrick Foy wrote: Late in his second term, Reagan gave a radio address about tariffs. It is worth listening to. Reagan was a reader, a thinker and did his own research. He wrote his own material. You might even call him an intellectual. He was able to think outside the box, like when he proposed an agreement with Gorbachev to do away with all nuclear weapons. I forget why that did not happen. Reagan was serious. In any event, it […]
Tweet MAGA is really MAPA – “Make America Poor(er) Again.” Twenty-four hours after Trump recklessly dealt the final blow to the post-war rules-based system of global trade, the financial markets have rendered their judgment. These markets, remember, are forward-looking and are driven by people spending (or not spending) their own money. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost in a single day – today – 4% and is 9% below its mid-February level, when Trump began ramping up his […]
With Cris Sheridan Mar 25, 2025 – Could the S&P 500 be on the brink of a tactical dip despite a strong economic backdrop? Mike Singleton of Invictus Research weighs in with a surprising take on 2025. Mike Singleton of Invictus Research discusses the US economic…
Jeffrey A. Singer In 2019, Colorado lawmakers reduced possession of up to four grams of most controlled substances to a misdemeanor. Distribution or sale of controlled substances remained felonies. The law took effect as the fentanyl wave was making its way across the country, from east to west, and shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic caused a spike in alcohol and illicit drug use and fentanyl-related overdose deaths. The increase in overdose deaths, some of which were featured in local and national news reports, caused […]
A police officer in Miami, Florida has been suspended pending an investigation into an incident in which she sat in her patrol car while numerous bikers assaulted a man in front of her. Video shows the bikers not only beating the man but jumping on the hood and roof of his car and breaking his windshield, during which time the officer never left her car. The post Brickbat: To Observe, not Report appeared first on Reason.com.
President Donald Trump has unilaterally imposed tariffs on much of the world. Yet the authority to impose tariffs is nowhere to be found in Article II of the Constitution, which is where the limited powers of the president are enumerated. Rather, the authority “to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,” as well as the authority “to regulate Commerce with Foreign nations,” is to be found exclusively in Article I, which is where the powers of Congress […]