Otherweb Archive - Opinion - Business

• How a California transit-oriented development bill survived a crucial committee hearing
• Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pushes back against pessimistic market sentiment
• Spain’s blackouts are a disaster made by Net Zero
• Trump has put himself squarely in the camp of ‘Wall Street over Main Street’
• Hatchet Job on CFPB Even Worse in the Details
• KKR’s first leveraged buyout of a public company set the stage for KKR’s rapid expansion into the 1980s and beyond
• Sen. Josh Hawley reintroduces PELOSI Act to ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks
• Q. I bought a scratch-and-win ticket for my roommate. She said she didn’t want it. Is it legal? — Lucky Break
• Fed. R.P. 12(f) allows a court to strike from a pleading an insufficient defense or any redundant, immaterial, impertinent, or scandalous matter
• Nike is getting blasted for using a phrase associated with the Holocaust only three days after Yom HaShoah
• A federal judge greenlights a lawsuit that claims Florida's ban on lab-grown meat is unconstitutional
• How Trump turned around a Biden energy policy based on hand waves and lies
• Tariffs are driving investors to Pokémon and Mickey Mantle — these aren’t your grandfather’s trading cards
• A new Heritage Foundation report shows the economic benefits of fracking for natural gas in New York state
• Artificial intelligence and energy security
• 'Ask a Manager' author Alison Green shares her favorite examples of 'malicious compliance' in the workplace
• Iowa Needs to Constitutionalize Taxpayer Protections - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Trump is taking a wrecking ball to Biden’s political regulation Leviathan, says Steve Cortes
• Economists: Like the Augurs of Ancient Rome - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Bessent: American Economy Is a ‘Barbell’
• Hochul’s budget fantasy speeds NY off a spending cliff — here’s who must call her out
• Wendell Berry’s Plea to Sustain Ourselves - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• A small school district blew experts away with reading scores—until Ohio passed a new law
• NYC is faltering — and a bailout from Washington is highly unlikely
• California Gov. Gavin Newsom asks state regulator to redouble efforts to keep oil refineries in the state
• From dread to action: Tracking the Trump-Musk death toll from cuts to USAID
• Trump’s EO on Coal Can Be the Start of Something Big
• 'Neoliberalism has fuelled the rise of populism': How did it work?
• Long Island wind power is yet another green screwjob — forcing New Yorkers to pay more than DOUBLE for energy
• DEI Discrimination at the Harvard Law Review
• The net zero transition will not happen without local communities
• Judge halts federal scrutiny of $200 transactions
• This week on The Intercept, reporter Matt Sledge talks about Trump’s influence on the crypto industry
• Fearful of Trump’s penchant for targeting his perceived enemies, some nonprofit leaders say large donors are pulling back
• Investigating How Illegal Gold Gets Into the Legitimate Supply Chain
• Virginia Vehicle Property Tax Is Highest in Nation. Why Are Dems Fighting So Hard to Keep It? - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Tariffs helped wreck the economy in the 1930s. Why is Trump making the same mistake?
• The Fed's Big Conflict of Interest – Peter J. Wallison
• Colony Ridge’s defense lawyer and lobbying group teamed up to draft legislation that would exempt Texas developments like Colony Ridge from consumer protection laws
• Could zonal pricing reduce energy costs?
• Miranda Devine: Leftists to blame for much of the US housing crisis — as almost a third of Americans are ‘housing-poor’
• The Obvious Fix for California’s Housing Crisis - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Trump crypto coin buyers offered VIP White House tour
• Trump: We're going to have a fair deal with China. We're going to have a country you can be proud of
• Trump has signed an executive order creating a United Sovereign Wealth Fund and Strategic cryptocurrency Reserve
• Trump may institute a plan for illegal immigrant farm workers to leave the U.S. then return legally to work, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says
• Trump rages at the fed over interest rates
• Trump's tariffs are threatening a $3 billion nuclear power plant restart in Michigan
• I Own an Upscale Restaurant. I Want to Institute a Ban That Could Anger My Customers.
• Tsinghua University: International Co-Director and Faculty Member
• Financial Repression Is Back As Euro Debasement Continues
• Oakland merchants face thousands in fines for graffiti on their properties
• Hell is not other people – it’s being stuck in the ninth circle of an automated telephone service | Hilary Freeman
• Action needed: social housing providers must be made accountable for the treatment of their tenants | Steve Bundred
• Kennedy to direct food manufacturers to phase out eight petroleum-based food dyes by 2026
• The markets won’t let Trump fire Jerome Powell - Washington Examiner
• The U.S. House and Senate are racing to bring stablecoins out of the shadows
• EXCLUSIVE: Colony Ridge’s growth was fueled by a direct plea from Texas Governor Greg Abbott
• In a difficult year being unemployed, I learned what success really means | Sunil Badami
• Elizabeth Warren says Trump is risking a market crash by calling for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates
• Top Wall Street analysts like these dividend-paying energy stocks
• It’s the Most Devious Childhood Prank of All. Now It’s Under Threat by a Familiar Foe.
• The Galaxy Brains of the Trump White House Want to Use Tariffs to Buy Bitcoin
• Trump wants lower egg prices. He's also putting tariffs on imported eggs.
• Don't fear the bird flu when dyeing easter eggs
• Americans Might Be Tempted to Leave Their Eggs on the Counter Like Europeans. There’s a Reason You Can’t.
• Letitia James: Karma is a b***h
• There are fewer children in England’s primary schools. That’s no reason to strip funding from them | Lola Okolosie
• Carrot-shaped lights, bunny wreaths and beauty boxes – forget Easter, welcome to 'Eastermas' | Amelia Tait
• American Prosperity Depends on Free Trade - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Ashley St. Clair’s Daring Stand - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Autumn leaves: how to prepare your garden for winter more sustainably
• Trump extends hiring freeze on government workers for another 90 days
• How to raise backyard chickens
• Review: The Christian case for free markets
• Review: 'The Whole Story' tells the story of Whole Foods Market
• Britain needs houses, and Labour’s bold plan will address that. But it may require more migrants | Polly Toynbee
• If not Hochul, who IS stalling Trump’s appeal of Tish James’ civil-fraud case?
• Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers
• The casualties of America’s loss of glassware manufacturing to China
• I Work in the Business of Helping People in Crisis. One Colleague Feels “No Sympathy” for Them.
• Do you know about the EPA’s ‘Endangerment Finding’? Here are five reasons to reverse it
• Fed Chair Powell Faces Fresh Attacks From Trump..Again
• Cal Thomas: Time to stamp out the post office
• Why is there an erasure of Easter? FreePik asks
• Trump is right to stop the flood of lawsuits targeting America’s energy providers, says Consumer Choice Center’s Yal Ossowski
• Will Republicans Own the Brewing Budget Calamity? - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Tish James is guilty of rank hypocrisy if the NY AG did what she targeted Trump for
• 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony brought a knife to a Texas track meet and allegedly used it to fatally stab Austin Metcalf
• After 25 years of the same housing policies pushing up demand, Australia needs a new approach | Greg Jericho
• How much of the angst is driven by the media, and who will get the blame? – the I&I/TIPP Poll
• What Trump's tariff shock will cost you.
• Does The Fed Shave With Occam’s Razor?
• California bill would make it easier for homeless college students to live in their cars on campus parking lots
• Money-supply growth rose year over year in February for first time since mid-2022
• Pennsylvania coal-fired power plant to be replaced with natural gas plant that will create thousands of jobs
• NY AG Letitia James finds herself accused of the very same real estate shenanigans she charged Trump with
• The American alcohol industry could be one of the biggest losers of the trade war with Canada and Europe
• Why nuclear energy developers are suing federal regulators
• Hawaii County tells homeowner his 38-year-old house is actually illegal