Economy
Americans really need to be able to step back a bit from the immediate issue addressed in legislation and think about how it relates to our understanding of society’s proper structure. A Rhode Island bill going after self-checkout lanes in retail stores is an excellent case study. Kathy Gregg writes in the Providence Journal: An army…
Oren Cass’s analysis of the weeks required to support a middle-class lifestyle for American Compass raises some interesting points. The study focuses on the income of men and shows that the combined cost of food, housing, health care, transportation, and education surpassed the median male income in the mid-’90s. By 2022, that income was about…
University of Rhode Island Economics Professor Len Lardaro reminds us of the magic by which the state makes its employment numbers look good: To me, the apologists for the status quo are the scariest part. Saying, “Oh, don’t worry. People are just retiring,” completely misses the point. If Rhode Islanders are retiring, shouldn’t their jobs…
For several reasons (voluntary and not-so-voluntary), I’ve been digging into Marxism a bit more over the past year. I mean both ol’ Marx himself and his followers, up to modern practitioners. One point that has come home very strongly is that the ideal that Marxists sell is actually the end toward which a system built…
Clips from the John Loughlin show that carried Rhode Islanders through the holiday season and into the new year.
John DePetro and Justin Katz find evidence of the missing ingredient in RI politics everywhere.
Whether Western Civilization is fundamentally build on a principle of cooperation is a fundamental philosophical dividing line in our current politics.
For that lesson alone, readers should give it a few minutes. But this paragraph near the end captures something far more intimately relevant to our times than even Munger may have intended: Once you are duped into believing destruction is productive, almost everything that a rational public policy would label as a cost becomes, by…
Host Richard August brings viewers up to speed on the economy in an interview with investment advisor Derek Amey.
It’s “climate change,” of course; that’s the easy go-to answer for anything having to do with the natural environment. Even when there’s a more proximate explanation, the global bogeyman has to be tacked on, as the Boston Globe’s Dharna Noor does in this case: The culprit behind all those dead trees: Drought, which hit New England…