The rise in consumer prices has rightly received a great deal of attention, as inflation hovers around 40-year highs. Everyone…
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President Joe Biden once bizarrely remarked on the 2020 campaign trail, “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore.” It shows.…
It is far past time to reopen the border between the United States and Canada. Even Gov. Janet Mills agrees…
A recent CNBC article highlights a common economic fallacy surrounding the concept of inflation. The author claims that inflation can…
On June 21, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a decision in the case of NCAA v. Alston…
Proponents of big government spending have desperately argued that mounting price inflation is just temporary. But multiple alarming inflation metrics…
It is tempting to think of America’s economic classes as stable and sedentary. Talk of widening income inequality has cemented…
Governor Mills is preparing to unveil her budget proposal for the next biennium and we’re about to learn if she…
Proponents of the Universal Home Care tax plan were either caught by surprise or caught red-handed when the Maine State…
As The Maine Wire has repeatedly shown here, here and here, proponents of a minimum wage increase in Maine seem more…
What comes to mind when you think about Maine? Well, a lot of things actually, but the answer I’m looking…
You’d be hard pressed to come up with a state more rich with the tradition of hunting than Maine. From…
Recently on Twitter, a very non-political friend of mine posted something about the failures of Obamacare. It was only seconds before a…
On Wednesday, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) released the 8th edition of Rich States, Poor States: ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index.…
This week, a Portland task force will hear final discussions on Mayor Michael Brennan’s proposal to increase the city’s minimum…
An index of economic freedom in North America ranks Maine in the bottom 10 of states and provinces that offer…
by Scott Moody Just last week, the U.S. Census Bureau released the latest change in population data for Maine by…