Earlier this year, sky-high inflation forced the Federal Reserve to slam the monetary policy brakes. The same appears to be happening in Europe, where the European Central Bank (ECB) is being forced to reverse course to contend with inflation at the highest level since the euro’s 1999 ...
Who says bipartisan solutions to high prescription drug prices are impossible? Senators Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, recently introduced legislation to rein in the biggest culprit behind high drug costs: pharmacy benefit managers. The bill prohibits some of PBMs’ ...
It’s tabloid fodder at its most primal. But the case reflects our own natural, moral minds. If you spend any time in our most esteemed forums for debate and civil discourse — YouTube comment sections and Twitter threads — you get the sense that the case between actor Johnny Depp and his ...
The Food and Drug Administration’s recently announced proposal to ban menthol cigarettes is ill advised on multiple fronts. Not only does this proposal make no economic sense but it also fails to recognize a simple fact: People in a free society should be free to choose their poison. The ...
In recent months, much of the green lobby has been focussing its ire on palm oil. If it were up to the lobby, importing and using this common vegetable oil would be banned overnight. In fact, the European Union has already done something similar, and is working on a total palm oil import ban. ...
The 27-member European Union has agreed to a partial ban on Russian oil in a move that will affect 75 percent of its imports now and 90 percent by the end of the year. The bloc had originally proposed to impose an immediate and full embargo on all Russian imported oil but had to settle for a ...
