Want to Enjoy Your Retirement? Consider Delaying It

manhattan.institute Most people aren’t ready financially to retire completely at 65 or even 67, but they can still slow down a little. The bad news is that most of us will need to work longer.…

Costly complexity

reason.com Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. I wanted to change up the newsletter's format a little bit to write about an underappreciated benefit of…

NPR just keeps on sliding more and more to the left as it unfolds into a complete crap show

nypost.com I recently asked a prominent activist investor — someone who regularly demands from the public companies he targets various forms of boardroom change — what he would demand…

Too Many Passive Investors? There’s No Such Thing

manhattan.institute Can markets still be efficient if most investors aren’t even paying attention? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. US markets are doing much better than markets everywhere…

New Study Calls Into Question Whether DEI Programs Really Boost Corporate Earnings

zerohedge.com New Study Calls Into Question Whether DEI Programs Really Boost Corporate Earnings Authored by Jonathan Miltmore via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It’s safe to say that…

Yes, NPR Is a Mess. But “Wokeness” Is Not the Problem

slate.com NPR, the great bastion of old-school audio journalism, is a mess. But as someone who loves NPR, built my career there, and once aspired to stay forever, I say with sadness…

This Tax Week, Remember That the Federal Income Tax Is Relatively New

reason.com Another Tax Day has come and gone, and most Americans believe they pay too much. One recent poll revealed that 56 percent say they pay more than their fair share.…

The Two-Income-Tax Trap

city-journal.org The year was 1969, and Vivien Kellems of Connecticut was once again unhappy with America’s tax collectors. Two decades earlier, she had made waves by refusing to withhold…

Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk

nbcnews.com Elon Musk’s X is a thriving hub for Nazi support and propaganda, with paid subscribers sharing speeches by Adolf Hitler or content praising his genocidal regime. NBC News…

The tax code is made for tradwives. Here’s how much it punishes dual-earning couples

fortune.com Putting your taxes together, you may have noticed that many details of your personal life change how much you pay. Are you married? Do you have kids? Do you pay for child…

The Problems w/Eliminating Social Security Tax Cap

manhattan.institute Social Security’s deepening funding shortfalls are driving the system’s trust fund to within a decade from insolvency, which would mean an immediate 23% reduction in…

The real tax gap

reason.com After listening to President Joe Biden or looking at polls of the general public, you might come away thinking that this weekend's federal income tax filing deadline is a…

Biden's COVID-19 spending comes back to bite as inflation remains high: economists

foxbusiness.com President Biden and senior White House officials are scrambling to explain stubbornly-high inflation levels, which economic experts blame on the administration's own…

Fraudband for Everyone! Bipartisan Love of Infrastructure

manhattan.institute Everybody loves infrastructure. It’s one of the few things Democrats and Republicans agree on these days. When Joe Biden came into office touting plans to spend more money…