Showing posts with label consumer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consumer. Show all posts
The Delirious Happiness Of Free Market Choice
by David John Marotta. In 2007, Malcolm Gladwell, author of “Blink” and “The Tipping Point,” gave a TED talk on psychophysicist Howard Moskowitz.
According to Gladwell, Moskowitz has “done as much to make Americans
happy as perhaps anyone over the last twenty years.” His work and
subsequent fame was in the food science industry, but his ... MOREMichelle Malkin: Obamacare's Annus Horribilis
There's no candy coating the truth: Obamacare has had a very terrible, horrible, crappy, none-too-happy year. What it really means is that the victims of Obamacare — taxpayers, health care consumers, health care providers, employers and employees — have had a hellish, nightmarish 2014. Let's start with premiums. President Candy ... MOREMeasure To Tax Internet Sales Is Dead For A Year
by Sean Higgins. Legislation to tax Internet sales is dead for the year, a key Senate aide said. No bill allowing the taxation will be taken up before Congress' lame-duck session ends, meaning that purchases made through online merchants such as Amazon will continue to be tax-free for the foreseeable future. A coalition made up of state and ... MORERonald Bailey: How Low Can Gas Prices Go?
Peak oil? What peak oil? The price of oil in global markets has plunged by
nearly 40 percent over the past six months. As a result, the price
of a gallon of regular gasoline in the U.S. has dropped from an
average of $3.68
in June to $2.74 this week. In June, the U.S. Energy
Information Administration had projected that a gallon of gas ... MOREIra Stoll: Government-Backed Green Energy Goes Bust
What the Xunlight bankruptcy reveals about cronyism. The recent Chapter 7 bankruptcy and liquidation filing of the Toledo, Ohio-based solar-panel manufacturer Xunlight Corp. has attracted barely any national attention. Maybe it’s gotten to the point—after Solyndra, Evergreen, Abound, and Satcon—that the failure of another ... MORE
A. Barton Hinkle: End State Monopolies On Liquor Sales
It's time to get the state out of the booze business. Virginia made a big mistake four years ago when it failed to end the state’s monopoly on liquor sales, and its residents are going to pay the price for that — again. So far in 2014 Virginia has hauled in 6 percent more revenue than it had by this point last year. But lawmakers had planned ... MOREAnit-Freedom California Nannies Now Ban Plastic Bags
by Fenit Nirappil. Good news: repeal referendum already planned. Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed the nation's first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery and convenience stores, driven to action by pollution in streets and waterways. A national coalition of plastic bag manufacturers immediately said it would seek a voter ... MOREUSPS - Where Customer Service Is Always Last
by Katie Kieffer. Bang! Lee looked up from addressing a package while she
waited in line for service at the post office. Despite a lobby packed
with customers—without notice—a postal worker slammed down the service
window gate and went to lunch, leaving Lee and the other patrons to fend
for themselves. The U.S. Postal Service excels ... MORECraig Timberg: New Apple Encryption Will Lock Out Police
Serving consumers at government's expense. Apple said Wednesday night that it is making it impossible for the
company to turn over data from most iPhones or iPads to police — even
when they have a search warrant — taking a hard new line as tech
companies attempt to blunt allegations that they have too readily
participated in ... MOREEliza Gray: E-Cigs Are Smokers’ Favorite Quitting Tool
No wonder big govt wants them regulated. Electronic cigarettes are a more popular tool for smokers trying to quit than nicotine gums and patches, according to a new study of consumer behavior from Kantar Media. As e-cigarettes have exploded from niche product to $2 billion-plus industry, big tobacco isn’t the only industry facing ... MOREObamaCare Premiums To Rise By Average Of 7.5 Percent
by Elise Viebeck. The high cost of the Affordable Care Act. Premiums on ObamaCare's health insurance exchanges will rise by an average of 7.5 percent next year, according to a new analysis. Data compiled by the Health Research Institute (HRI) at PricewaterhouseCoopers found modest changes in premiums for 27 states and the District of Columbia, ... MORESam Batkins: The Nation's $100 Billion Regulations Tab
Obama’s pen-and-phone regulations are very costly. What does President Obama’s “Year of Action” mean, exactly? The answer is more than $100 billion in regulatory burdens so far this year, putting the nation on track for $200 billion by year’s end. This is what “using his pen and his phone” means for countless manufacturers, energy ... MOREColorado's Cannabis Consumption Conundrum
by Jacob Sullum. Buying pot is easy; smoking it is hard. For cannabis consumers who are accustomed to the black market's
meager selection and iffy quality, Colorado's dispensaries are a
revelation: dozens of strains, each with a distinctive bouquet,
fresh enough that you can actually smell the difference.
Denver-area budtenders, who say ... MORE
Your Right To Grow, Raise, Produce, Buy, Sell, Share, Cook, Eat, And Drink What You Want Is Under Attack
by Baylen Linnekin. Earlier this week the Institute for Justice
published an important report, The Attack on Food
Freedom, as part of its National Food Freedom Initiative.
The twenty-five page report is co-authored by me and Michael
Bachmann, a Seton Hall law student. While referring to a report I co-authored as "important" may seem ... MOREJohn Stossel: Here Comes Tomorrow
Robots will make our future better. Ray Kurzweil — inventor of things like machines that turn text into speech — has popularized the idea that we are rapidly approaching "the singularity," the point at which machines not only think for themselves but develop intellectually faster than we. At that point, maybe we no longer talk about "human ... MORE
Peter Schiff: Debt Is No Salvation
Credit is destroying what savings built. Thus far 2014 has been a fertile year for really stupid economic
ideas. But of all the half-baked doozies that have come down the pike
(the perils of “lowflation,” Thomas Piketty’s claims about capitalism
creating poverty, and President Obama’s “pay as you earn” solution to
student debt), an idea hatched ... MORE
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