Happy March! Let’s get started….
Student Loans: Officially dragging down the economy.
I think I have a way to increase consumer spending: This is crazy talk I know, but if the minimum wage were higher, people who make minimum wage could afford to buy stuff.
And the Supreme Court makes it worse: Now the government can effectively prevent accused criminals from hiring an effective defense team by confiscating all their assets, making “innocent until proven guilty” potentially a cruel joke.
When even the IMF disagrees with American tax policy: Yeah, they think the rich need to be taxed more. That trickle down thing? Doesn’t work.
Rules: “Planned food safety rules rile organic farmers“.
Price Fixing: Gold is a market controlled by a handful of banks.
5 Surprising Discoveries: here.
On those new nutrition labels: of course there’s still a 20% margin of error.
Treat someone like a rat and they’ll act like one?: Rat Park (h/t).
Blast from the past: The old Fiat factory.
Plagued with too much money?: Buy a private island!
Interesting point: Cats.
And Finally: I’m sorry, some stuff you just can’t make up. And just wait until you hear the reason this news station can’t air the footage they have.