Subsidizing Higher Education Is Not Creating Widespread External Benefits

Pricing Doritos At $7 A Bag Cost Pepsi "Billions" In Revenue Turns out there's a price point for everything where consumers just stop paying. Guess that whole "price as a rationing mechanism" talk means something after all... Just ask Pepsi. The iconic brand had recognized for some time that its Frito-Lay snack prices were becoming too expensive, with major retailers like Walmart repeatedly raising concerns, according to Bloomberg. Even so, prices remained high as sales declined, with some chip bags climbing past $7. Popular products such as Doritos saw sharp increases, jumping...

US Has Been Engaged In Major Airstrikes On Pro-Iran Paramilitaries In Iraq Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) said Tuesday that US airstrikes in Anbar, western Iraq, killed 15 of its fighters, including a senior commander. "In a blatant and cowardly attack, the commander of the Anbar Operations in the Popular Mobilization Forces, Saad Dua al-Bayji, was martyred along with a group of his heroic comrades following a treacherous American airstrike that targeted the command headquarters while they were performing their national duty," the PMF said in a statement, according to The...

US Should Start Removing Its Troops From Germany, Proposes AfD Co-Leader Chrupalla Via Remix News, Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-chair Tino Chrupalla spoke out in favor of withdrawing American troops from Germany. During a party congress in Saxony, he stressed that, if AfD comes to power, this should be the first step in implementing the party’s program, which calls for the removal of all allied forces from Germany and a withdrawal from NATO’s nuclear weapons sharing system. “Let’s start implementing this program by withdrawing U.S. troops,” he said, as reported by the...