The argument against preemption is also an argument against a statewide minimum wage.
To borrow from P.J. O'Rourke, the good news is that the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that you're rich.
The Magic Money Tree which will pay for trillions of dollars of new spending has a new name: Modern Monetary Theory
Sen. Sanders took a laptop costing a few hundred dollars and produced Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, for which he was paid $795,000.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
On Wednesday, I gave a presentation to the Society of of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) chapter for Minnesota in Duluth, and it was one of the best speaking experiences…
Politicians in St. Paul are itching to spend more money. They claim it will be someone else’s money spent on you. But beware. To borrow from P. J. O’Rourke, the…
To think that new intervention will cure the ill effects of previous intervention is the triumph of hope over experience. At the very least, the new intervention will have unintended…
Should we persist with policies like increased minimum wages and 'Ban the box' laws because their intentions are noble, or do we junk them because their outcomes are harmful?
A tax cut is going to 'disproportionately' benefit 'the rich' because they pay a 'disproportionate' share of the taxes.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota
The story of Bonnie, Clyde, their victims, and the men who hunted them down, finally gets a proper telling.
The point of an energy industry is to generate energy, not to generate jobs. If it was, we could hire people to stand in front of wind turbines blowing at…
Last year, according to Mayor Carter, Saint Paul didn't have "$100,000 to spend blowing up rockets over our city" to commemorate the country's birthday. This year, it has $225,000 available…
At the capitol last week, Rep. Loeffler claimed that most of 'the rich' were idle rich who didn't work for their money and asked for research into this. That research…
Data show that Minnesota's state tax revenues are at near record highs. So why are lawmakers trying to raise your taxes?
The tax increases proposed by the House DFL will hit every Minnesotan, young and old, at every income level. We’ll pay more in gas taxes, tab fees, income taxes, capital…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Do the regulations which hold back Minnesota's craft brewers exist to protect consumers from more choice and higher quality or large competitors who can afford the lobbyists to push them?
All too often, the same legislators who raise taxes to discourage some behavior fail to apply this logic to other taxes. At the capitol this week, Rep. Lesch was a…
"Gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket" - Mark Hanna
When it comes to tax rates, Minnesota's Democrats seem to be animated by the spirit of The Wolf of Wall Street's Mark Hanna; "Gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie…
The only way to boost wages is to boost worker productivity.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.