Liberty
Feds Make ‘Incoherent’ Argument Against Grocery Merger
Editors at National Review Online take aim at the Federal Trade Commission. Did you know the U.S. is on the verge of a grocery-store monopoly? That’s what the Federal Trade…
Whole Foods Market
American supermarket chain specializing in natural and organic foods
Liberty
Drugs, Homelessness Could Cost San Francisco a Lucrative Conference
Ben Wilson writes for the Washington Free Beacon about bad news for a leading left-coast city. San Francisco could lose a massive conference that brings in millions of dollars because…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Some companies refuse to bow to cancel culture
Joseph Simonson of the Washington Examiner highlights notable examples of large companies that are refusing to go along with today’s toxic cancel culture. Seemingly every day, the world’s biggest corporations…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Whole Foods CEO highlights dangers of socialism
Nicholas Ballasy writes at JustTheNews.com about a warning from the head of Whole Foods. Whole Foods founder and CEO John Mackey argues that socialism is a failed system that “impoverishes…
Education
Martin Center column probes MBA programs
Jason Fertig writes for the Martin Center about the merits of master’s of business administration programs. Once a hot degree, the MBA is now being questioned by more and more…
Education
Martin Center presents contrasting views on campus ‘food insecurity’
The latest Martin Center column collects expert opinions on the notion of “food insecurity” among college students. Count James Bovard among the skeptics. Some college students are going hungry nowadays,…
Liberty
Government and trust
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online focuses on the importance of trust. Trust enables social cooperation in part by lowering what economists call transaction costs. When you want to buy…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Bursting of the higher education bubble
Editors at Investor’s Business Daily welcome the end of the higher education bubble (discussed frequently in this venue). A good indication of a tightening labor market is the fact that…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
President Attacks Consumers with Amazon Tweet
“Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the U.S. are being hurt – many jobs being lost!” – President Donald Trump Setting aside…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
National Review on the Amazon/Whole Foods deal
The latest print edition of National Review features an interesting blurb about Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods. Imagine explaining this in 1960: Whole Foods Market, a high-end grocery specializing in…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Misreading the Amazon/Whole Foods deal
Editors at Investor’s Business Daily offer an alternative view to critics of Amazon‘s buyout of Whole Foods. Consumer groups are challenging Amazon’s buying Whole Foods on antitrust grounds. They have…
Health Care
Anti-science liberals
Paul Offit writes at the Daily Beast about an anti-science bias among progressives. If you don’t believe in the existence of the anti-science left, just walk into a Whole Foods…