Greg Jensen, co-chief investment officer at asset management firm Bridgewater Associates, recommended last week in The Wall Street Journal that the U.S. adopt China’s “quasimodern mercantilist system.” Jensen claims that “currency management, public procurement, state subsidies, protectionism and other implicit subsidies” have enabled China to develop “a range of leading industries.” He also advocates for […]
The question presented is: Whether the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, as applied to petitioners, violates the First Amendment. The parties’ briefs are due the same day, Dec. 27, as are friend-of-the-court briefs. Both parties appear to be entitled to file repl Read More Article from Reason.com
The Biden administration, and the political establishment Read More Article from Mises Institute
The movie The Matrix gave us the “red pill” and the “blue pill.” The red wakes you up to reality; the blue keeps you indoctrinated. Internet culture then invented a black pill. Those who take it think the world is doomed. So, podcaster Michael Malice wrote the book The White Pill, calling it a “symbol […]
Rep. Ro Khanna (D–Calif.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) have reintroduced the SAFE SEX Workers Study Act. It aims to study the effects of FOSTA, a 2018 law that targeted online content promoting sex work. FOSTA—formally known as the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act—weakened Section 230 of federal communications law […]
Will Trump Make Good on His Promises to Libertarians? The New York Sun Read More Article from “libertarian” – Google News
Monday’s Complaint in this case essentially alleges that pollster Ann Selzer’s Nov. 2 poll for the Des Moines Register, which showed Harris ahead in Iowa by 3 points, was deceptive to consumers and thus violated Iowa consumer fraud law: 62. President Trump, together with all Iowa and American voters, is a “consumer” within the meaning […]
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)—passed in 2017 during the first Trump administration—wasn’t really a tax cut in practice. It ended up functionally raising taxes on a lot of people. While it did lower marginal income tax rates across the board, reducing the top rate from 39.6 percent to 37 percent, it also capped […]
Confessions of a Good Samaritan‘/> Today’s guest is Penny Lane, the acclaimed documentary filmmaker whose previous works include Listening to Kenny G and Hail Satan?, both of which formed the basis of previous Reason interviews linked in the show notes. Her exceptional new film is Confessions of a Good Samaritan. It’s currently streaming on Netflix and follows […]
It’s starting to feel a lot like Christmas: Like a student rushing to finish the last essay of the semester, or a guest writer struggling to turn in the morning newsletter on time, congressional leaders have hastily agreed to a spending plan just days before the federal government was due to partially shut down for […]