by Iain Murray. In Damon Runyon’s Broadway stories (and in the musical Guys and Dolls),
a gambler named Nathan Detroit hosts New York’s oldest established
floating crap game, presaging three functions of today’s app revolution.
Thinking of the app market in such nontechnological terms shows us what
is really happening today and lays bare the ... MORE
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Why Government Should Not Regulate The App Economy
by Iain Murray. In Damon Runyon’s Broadway stories (and in the musical Guys and Dolls),
a gambler named Nathan Detroit hosts New York’s oldest established
floating crap game, presaging three functions of today’s app revolution.
Thinking of the app market in such nontechnological terms shows us what
is really happening today and lays bare the ... MOREOakland’s Minimum Wage Is Up, Wal-Mart Is Out
by Leah Jessen. How that workin' out for ya? A minimum wage of $12.55 an hour in Oakland, Calif., may be the culprit for a Wal-Mart store’s closure. Last Friday, Wal-Mart announced it will close 269 stores globally—including 154 locations in the United States—impacting about 10,000 associates here at home. “The minimum wage in the city of ... MOREHow Government Poisoned The People Of Flint
by John Counts. Flint water has poisoned more than just its children. It's poisoned the citizenry's faith in government, which is supposed to provide safe drinking water, one of life's most basic essentials. Just ask Pete Nichols who was picking up bottles of water from a downtown fire station on a recent weekday. "Somebody needs to go to jail for ... MOREBrad Rodu: Bootleggers, Baptists And E-cigarettes
The alliance to ban potentially live-saving devices. E-cigarette users should be concerned about proposed Food and Drug Administration regulations that may eliminate most brands of these potentially life-saving cigarette alternatives, leaving only those products marketed by large tobacco companies with the resources to complete expensive ... MOREFeds Want To Lower Legal Driving Limit To One Drink
by Elizabeth Harrington. More restrictions, less freedom. The National Transportation Safety Board wants to decrease the legal driving limit to one drink, lowering the legal limit on blood-alcohol content to 0.05 “or even lower.” The agency released its “most wanted list” on Wednesday, a laundry list of policies it would like implemented ... MOREA Faster Internet? Not With FCC Regulations
by Steve Pociask. Does the FCC’s public utility-style regulation of wireline incumbent telephone companies (abbreviated here as ILECs)
and their legacy copper-based voice services work to protect consumers
or impede broadband competition? That is the question explored by a new American Consumer Institute study. Telephone service regulations ... MOREMike Hopper: The Federal Government Is Launching A Criminal Investigation Into Chipotle, And It’s A Bad Sign
Criminalizing mistakes. Law enforcement is a growth industry. 2015 was full of high-profile safety cases. Blue Bell Ice Cream had to take all of its products off the shelves after several cases of listeria, Chicago-based Aspen Foods recalled over 2.5 million pounds of frozen chicken over salmonella concerns, and, most recently, Chipotle saw cases of ... MORE3,000 Business Regulations Coming In 2016
by Shubhomita Bose. Another year, another roll of red tape for small businesses to cut through. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, over 3,000 new regulations are in the pipeline for 2016 on top of the 3,300 issued in 2015. Some of the regulations that will have a direct impact on businesses include a possible Environmental Protection Agency ... MORE6 Big Cities See Hiring Fade After Minimum Wage Hikes
by Jed Graham. Higher costs mean lower demand. U.S. cities that implemented big minimum-wage hikes to $10 an hour or more in 2015 have seen a strikingly similar aftermath: Job gains have fallen to multiyear lows at restaurants, hotels and other leisure and hospitality venues. The data aren't, for the most part, stark and reliable enough to amount ... MORECapitalism Loves The Earth But The Greens Hate Capitalism
by Stephen Hicks. Some parts of the world really are environmental Hells. They are dirty and depleted, making them unhealthy and economically unsustainable. We can argue about the severity of the problems in various places, but I want to focus on another aspect of the debate: determining accurately the causes of the degradation ... MOREGun Sales Peak As Obama Demands New Gun Restrictions
by Christopher Ingraham. New federal data shows 2015 was a record-smashing year for the American firearms industry, with gun
sales appearing to hit the highest level on record. Background checks
for gun purchases and permits jumped 10 percent last year to 23.1
million, the largest number since the federal background check system ... MORECalifornia Town Goes Podunk; Seeks To Stymie Medical Pot
by Thaddeus Miller. As state pot policy moves forward, one city goes backwards. Medical marijuana cardholders will not be allowed to grow cannabis for their own consumption after a vote Monday while the Merced City Council figures out what cultivation and dispensaries should be permitted in the city. The council unanimously passed the ... MORESteven Greenhut: Price Controls Will Slow Drug Innovation
More bad ideas from the left coast. The California state legislature has a habit of legislating by anecdote.
Assembly members or senators may have a bad experience at a state
agency or with private industry and they write a bill to address it.
Often, legislators offer proposals based on the latest news cycle.
Ultimately there are hearings, a long vetting ... MOREObama Pushing Thousands Of New Regulations In Year 8
by Timothy Noah. Nearly 4,000 regulations are squirming their way through the federal bureaucracy in the last year of Barack Obama’s presidency — many costing industry more than $100 million — in a mad dash by the White House to push through government actions affecting everything from furnaces to gun sales to Guantanamo. That ... MOREObama Executive Actions To Push Anti-Gun Agenda
by Juliet Eilperin. President Obama will press ahead with a set of executive actions on guns next week despite growing concerns in the United States over terrorism that have dampened some Americans’ enthusiasm for tighter firearms restrictions. The president will meet Monday with Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch to finalize a ... MORE
Steven Greenhut: Regulation A Sure Bet For Fantasy Games
California's option destroyers never sleep. "Fantasy sports"
has come a long way from the office football pool. Instead of passing
around photocopied spreadsheets and collecting a few bucks from cubicle
mates, players now go to sophisticated web sites, where they can make
daily wagers—and not just trudge through a long sports season ... MOREJohn Stossel: Politicians Without Borders
Today's politicians seem to have few limits. When driving on treacherous roads, guardrails are useful. If you fall asleep or maybe you're just a bad driver, guardrails may prevent you from going off a cliff. Recently, The Wall Street Journal's Kimberley Strassel used the phrase "no political guardrails" to point out how many of today's ... MORE
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