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Investing
Business Subsidies and State Tax Climates
Chris Edwards State and local subsidies and narrow tax breaks for businesses are growing. These benefits—called incentives—include grants, loans, tax…
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Investing
Are Government Prohibitions Effective?
Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter Standard economic reasoning suggests that prohibitions reduce the production and consumption of the outlawed good…
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Fourth Circuit: Tax Exempt Status Is Not Federal Financial Assistance
Walter Olson In a pair of cases decided within weeks of each other in 2022, federal judges ruled that private schools’…
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Economy
Financial institutions have 30 days to disclose breaches under new rules
Enlarge (credit: Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images) The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will require some financial institutions to disclose…
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Friday Feature: TwiddleU
Colleen Hroncich Jeana Wilson didn’t plan to get into education. But her daughter has special needs that her local school…
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Investing
101 Late Fees Charged by the Government
Nicholas Anthony Under the Biden administration, the government has launched an all‐out “war on junk fees.” This “war” has covered…
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Immersive Outreach Programs May Be a Better Investment than DEI Initiatives
Erec Smith Recently, the University of North Carolina‐Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted, unanimously, to divert money from its Diversity,…
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Economy
Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | the-lightwriter) An Arizona woman has been accused of helping generate millions of dollars for North…
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Economy
Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running
Enlarge (credit: The Serial Code/YouTube) It’s amazing, and a little sad, to think that something created in 1989 that changed…
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Investing
FERC’s Order No. 1920: A Costly Shell Game
Travis Fisher Disclaimer: I served as a staff economist at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 2006 to 2013 and as a commissioner…
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