July 29, 2019

Parker Drilling v. Newton and the Uncertainties of Wage-Hour Law

Sen. Bernie Sanders isn’t the only one stumped by the complexities of complying with wage and hour law these days. 

• “Parker Drilling v. Newton and the Uncertainties of Wage-Hour Law,” by Walter Olson

What Will Trigger An American Debt Crisis?

As the President and Congress push through another massive, debt-laden budget, deficits and debt continue to pile up. Chris Edwards discusses what might trigger an American debt crisis.

• Podcast: “What Will Trigger An American Debt Crisis?,” featuring Chris Edwards and Caleb O. Brown

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A Different Look at After-Tax Income Inequality

Properly understood, the facts about U.S. after-tax income distribution and growth are insufficiently alarming to justify the political misuse of questionable pretax, pretransfer income statistics as a false argument for redistributing after-tax income.

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Senator Portman Presumes To Know How Many Days Of Pain Relief All 328 Million Americans Need

Politicians can’t stop themselves from practicing medicine without a license–and they are killing people in the process.

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The Other Problem with Trump’s Tweet

Overlooked in the controversy over President Trump’s tweet that four lawmakers should “go back” to the countries “they originally came from” is the fact that the tweet–and its subsequent re-parsing–was a direct attack on representative government and the U.S. Constitution.

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