Regulation

Controlling liquor while allowing private sales in beer and wine appears to be shifting consumption to beer and wine relative to liquor. But remember, standard servings of the different kinds of alcohol deliver about the same kind of alcohol content.

Only 10 percent of guns used in crimes were purchased at retail sources by the perpetrator. That breaks down into 7.5 percent from gun shops, 1.6 percent from pawn shops, 0.4 percent from flea markets, and 0.8 percent from gun shows.

Bill McMorris of the Washington Free Beacon highlights the latest estimates of costs associated with raising the minimum wage. Academics, workers, and small business owners say the Democratic push to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour could cut 2 million jobs and hurt the workers lawmakers…

My latest research brief has the details on Ohio becoming the latest state to join the De-Licensing Revolution, which North Carolina has yet to do.

Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online that Republican Mark Harris believes he will be seated as North Carolina’s 9th District congressman. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains why North Carolina should build on regulatory reforms that are working.

Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online on the Wake County school system missing its enrollment projections. Dan Way reports on State Auditor Beth Wood pointing out ;pcal governments’ fiscal mismanagement. John Trump’s Daily Journal delves into the politics of North Carolina’s alcohol control system.

No, Etta James’ 1960 classic recording hasn’t entered the public domain, and the original score by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren hasn’t entered it either. Nevertheless, quite a few works will enter the public domain in 2019, and, as Duke’s Center for the Study of Public Domain reports,…

Alan Greenspan isn’t wishy washy about the proposal to soak the wealthy with a 70 percent income tax — the idea endorsed by Dem. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. From CNBC comes Greenspan’s response to the congresswoman who identifies herself as a democratic socialist: Without getting into the…