Musk Targets Retail Investors For Up To 30% Of SpaceX's IPO Shares

Appeals Court Terminates Criminal Contempt Proceedings Against Trump Admin Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An appeals court has put a stop to criminal contempt proceedings initiated by a district judge against the Trump administration. District Judge James Boasberg, chief judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia, stands for a portrait at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington on March 16, 2023. Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via AP In a brief, unsigned order on April 14, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit...

The Case Against Public-Sector Unions Authored by Aaron White via RealClearPolicy, America’s public-sector unions have a problem they can’t explain away: Workers are leaving. Ask a public employee when they joined their union and most couldn’t tell you. Because they didn’t join. The dues just started coming out of their check. That’s not a membership, and for decades nobody told workers they could opt out. That changed in 2018, when the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed in Janus v. AFSCME that no government employee can be forced to join or pay dues to a labor union. Hundreds of...

Millions Of Americans Are Giving Up On Buying New Cars A growing number of Americans can no longer afford to buy new vehicles. Since 2020, roughly one million potential buyers have exited the market, and industry forecasts suggest they are unlikely to return soon, according to Wall Street Journal.  Although automakers initially expected sales to recover to pre-pandemic levels, persistent economic pressures have kept demand below earlier expectations. Before COVID-19, U.S. new-vehicle sales typically reached around 17 million units annually. Today, most forecasts place demand closer to 16 million vehicles or less,...