1) Billy Joel Was Right: New Yorkers and Jersey Residents Are Moving Out - Not Up

Our billboards on the outmigration from New York and New Jersey to states like Florida, Texas and the Carolinas are up near the bridges and thoroughfares in these two states of exodus.

New York has lost nearly two million residents to other states over the last decade and New Jersey almost a half million. New York has lost roughly $111 billion in income and New Jersey has lost $31 billion. These states must change or the last person in the state will have to turn off the lights.

Let us know what you think of the ads and be sure to check out votewithyourfeet.net to see how your state is doing.

See/watch more about the billboard campaign on Fox News!

2) Laffer Tries To Save Britain

Unleash Prosperity co-founder, Arthur Laffer, is touring Britain and meeting with the opposition leadership this week promoting a new book to which he contributed a chapter: "Prosperity Through Growth.”  It serves as a direct rebuttal to the tax-raising budget the Labour Party is expected to announce next month.

The authors consulted the Centre for Economics and Business Research to predict where Britain's future place in global economic rankings will be. It found that Lithuania will overtake the UK in GDP per capita by 2030, with the Czech Republic and Saudi Arabia eclipsing Britain in 2031, and Poland overtaking in 2034.

If reform candidate Nigel Farage wins the next election (he leads in the polls) he has pledged to use the Laffer model to reverse the British decline.

3) The Government Is Closed but ANWR Is Open

Trump is keeping his promise to drill, baby, drill:

The left is taking this news about as expected:

The drilling in the vast refuge will take up the equivalent amount of land as a postage stamp on a football field. The polar bears and the caribou will be just fine.  

4) Chart of the Day: Majority of Private Sector Employees Now Have 401(k) Accounts

One of the best ways to get rich is by owning a piece of the rock. These 401(k) plans allow tens of millions of workers to become worker-owners.

5) Please Define "Monopoly?"

In reading the Europeans' latest bogus antitrust assault against Google, we couldn't help notice that according to the lawsuit, Google has violated their Digital Markets Act because "the cost per click for advertising has risen faster than the rate of inflation in Europe."  The Eurocrats complain that Google’ business plan is meant to squash the EU competitors and is causing them “severe financial hardship.”

Apparently, "from 2018 to 2020, the average cost per click inflation for these companies

was roughly 19-21 percent."

Google has dismissed the complaint as "baseless" and says it is “weaponizing the DMA to protect a small set of vested interests at the expense of European consumers and businesses.” I.E., Google's far inferior European tech competitors.

This absurd complaint reminds us of the old Thomas Sowell line that if a company's prices rise faster than the average, it is a monopolist; if its prices rise slower than its competitors, it's guilty of predatory pricing; and if the prices rise at exactly the same pace as competitors, the company is guilty of price fixing and colluding with the competition.

You can't win with these people.  

One more point, if prices rising faster than inflation is prima facie evidence of monopoly, then every university president, health insurance executive, and the Postmaster General should be in jail.  

6) Banished to Baseball

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