For decades, sugar beet and sugar cane farmers and processors have been the beneficiaries of a sugar program that stealthily drives up sugar costs—and, consequently, the cost of that heart-shaped box of chocolates (see chart above of U.S. sugar prices vs. world prices). Over the past 30 years, the annual burden on U.S. consumers has averaged over $3 billion in higher food prices.
full articleMarriage across racial and ethnic lines continues to be on the rise in the United States. The...
It's not just gasoline consumption that's declining--petroleum and electricity consumption are also...
We can see that the most recent official recession, running from December 2007 through June 2009,...
Strapped Jersey taxpayers are spending $10.3 billion over 30 years to pay off a pension borrowing...