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Investing
State Tax Cuts: Cheers and Jeers
Chris Edwards State legislative sessions have wrapped up for the year, and taxpayers have once again gained ground. Budget surpluses…
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Investing
Do Family Leave Policies Work?
Jeffrey Miron Policies that subsidize or mandate family leave aim to reduce the gender pay gap, shrink the “child penalty,”…
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Investing
The Mississippi State Auditor’s Report “How Illegal Immigration Hurts Mississippi Taxpayers” Isn’t Serious
Alex Nowrasteh The Mississippi Office of the State Auditor released a report that purports to show that illegal immigrants impose…
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Investing
Anti-Price-Gouging Laws Entrench Shortages
Ryan Bourne Note: This is an excerpt from my book The War on Prices, made all the more relevant by…
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Economy
Novel technique allows malicious apps to escape iOS and Android guardrails
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Phishers are using a novel technique to trick iOS and Android users into installing malicious apps…
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Economy
Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI services
Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a partnership with Ars Technica parent company Condé Nast to display content…
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Investing
Five Reasons Why Social Security Is an Income Transfer Program, Not an “Earned Benefit”
Romina Boccia It’s tempting to believe that Social Security is an “earned benefit”—after all, that’s a prevalent idea we’ve been…
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Economy
CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage
Enlarge / Shares in SentinelOne and Palo Alto Networks have risen since July’s IT outage, while CrowdStrike has shed almost…
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Economy
“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Last Tuesday, loads of Linux users—many running packages released as early as this year—started reporting their…
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Investing
Reflections on the Libertarianism vs. Conservativism Debate
Deirdre N. McCloskey On July 25, more than four years after the emergence of COVID-19 and the authoritarian reaction to…
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