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Today — May 15th 2024Your RSS feeds

The China Tariffs Aren’t about National Security

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
Protecting industries overly cozy with the government has nothing to do with national security.

President Joe Biden speaks during an event regarding new tariffs targeting various Chinese exports, at the White House in Washington, D.C., May 14, 2024.

Pour One Out for David Trone

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
He gave up his life as the wealthy owner of a chain of wine stores to spend $107 million of his own money on campaigns that didn’t go much of anywhere. 

Congressman David J. Trone (D., Md.) delivers remarks during the National Second Chance Townhall at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C., April 24, 2023.
Yesterday — May 14th 2024Your RSS feeds

What Made the Onion Funny

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
Ben Collins’s group purchasing The Onion has, predictably, led to very unfunny content. 

A pedestrian walks by an <i>Onion</i> news rack in San Francisco, Calif., May 5, 2009.
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Airports Are Not Public Goods

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
American airports provide economic value to paying customers, like grocery stores and movie theaters do. They should not be government projects.

An American Airlines jet lands in front of planes backed up waiting to depart on the runway after flights earlier were grounded during an FAA system outage at Laguardia Airport in New York City, January 11, 2023.

Nissan Employees in New Jersey Decertify UAW

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
Conservatives should not be intimidated by the coordinated PR campaign portraying the UAW as on the rise.

A person wearing a T-shirt that has “UAW member” written on it is pictured, in Chattanooga, Tenn., April 19, 2024.

Econception on the Looming 2025 Budget Mess

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
Paul Winfree and I discuss the coincidence of budgetary deadlines that will make 2025 a messy year for fiscal policy.

The Capitol Building at sunrise in Washington, D.C., November 17, 2008

Question for the Columbia Occupiers

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
What happens when the school year is over?

A 32-Hour Work Week for Your Workers, Not Mine

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
Senator Bernie Sanders and United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain know that their idea is silly.

Senator Bernie Sanders gestures as he speaks to the crowd as United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain and UAW Region 1 Director LaShawn English listen during a rally in Detroit, Mich., September 15, 2023.

Same Number of House GOP Supported Ukraine Aid in September as in April

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
After months of arguing between pro-Ukraine and anti-Ukraine groups, both sides persuaded a decent number of Republicans to switch their votes, but the total ended up in the same spot. 

Ukrainian national flags flutter in front of a heavily damaged apartment building in Orikhiv, Ukraine, February 28, 2024.

Don’t Devalue the Dollar, Pence Group Says

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
Republicans should offer tax reforms to increase incentives to save and invest and credible plans to cut the deficit.

Former vice president Mike Pence stands at the podium after announcing he will discontinue his presidential campaign, during the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Summit in Las Vegas, Nev., October 28, 2023.

Building Trades Unions Endorse Biden

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
Republicans would be wise to accept unions for what they are: part of the progressive movement.

President Joe Biden and North America’s Building Trades Unions president Sean McGarvey shake hands at a conference held by the North America's Building Trades Unions at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., April 24, 2024.

Vernon Smith on Adam Smith

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
A modern student writes about the pioneering Scottish philosopher and economist.

Statue of Adam Smith in Edinburgh, Scotland

More Media Cheerleading for Unions after VW Tennessee Vote

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
We’re supposed to believe that a win for the UAW is a win for workers and indicative of a national trend in favor of union membership. But the evidence is still lacking for both of those propositions.

President of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) Shawn Fain signs a placard at a watch party in Chattanooga, Tenn., April 2024.

The Market Will Make Sure Caitlin Clark Gets Paid a Lot

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
Don’t let the WNBA’s union pay scale get you down.

Iowa Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark (22) dribbles past Connecticut Huskies guard Nika Muhl (10) in the semifinals of the Final Four of the womens 2024 NCAA Tournament at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, Ohio, April 5, 2024.

The Bees Are Fine

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
The bee-population collapse was essentially solved in 2015. And market demand solved it.

A person points at a bee hive at Miller Honey Farms in Gackle, N.D., July 30, 2021.

More Evidence That Organized Labor Is Progressivism, and Progressivism Is Organized Labor

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
Even supposedly less political, ‘blue-collar’ unions regularly give big bucks to progressive causes.

United Auto Workers from Louisville, Ky., rally in support of striking UAW members in Detroit, Mich., September 15, 2023.

Railroads Oppose Union-Backed Rule Regarding Crew Sizes

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
The Federal Railroad Administration’s years-long regulatory adventure into mandating the crew sizes of freight trains continues.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe trains at a rail yard in Cicero, Illinois, in 2009.

Econception with Samuel Gregg on Industrial Policy

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
On the most recent episode of Econception, my podcast with the American Institute for Economic Research, I talked to Samuel Gregg about industrial policy.

Assembly line at the General Motors manufacturing plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., August 22, 2019.

A Sampler of Tax Day Commentary

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
Today is Tax Day, the holiday for publishing tax-related commentary.

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