How Antitrust Populists Drove Spirit Airlines Out of Business

I spent the past weekend as a participant in the annual Ron Paul Institute conference that takes place in the Washington area, in northern Virginia. This year the theme was “Front Row at the Revolution” and the circa 500 attendees that filled the Hilton Hotel ballroom certainly got what the gathering’s theme sought to deliver. The outstanding list of […]

Futures Flat As Oil Rebounds After Trump's "Energy Ceasefire" Unravels, Memory Stocks Slide US futures are flat, with S&P contracts clinging to small gains and the Nasdaq slipping into the red as memory stocks slide, after a weekend of contradictory geopolitical headlines whipsawed oil (see below). As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures were 0.1% higher at 7,865 while Nasdaq futures were down 0.1%. Dow futures are up about 0.1%. That follows a Friday session in which the S&P rose 0.6% to cap a 1.2% weekly gain (after a record close...

Appeals Court Upholds Hawaii's Rules For Gun Buyers Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times, Hawaii's rules for gun buyers were upheld by a federal appeals court Tuesday in a ruling that reversed a lower court's injunction. Palm trees frame the Hawaii State Capitol in Honolulu on April 23, 2025. Mengshin LinAP PhotoThe U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii by a vote of 6 to 5. In Todd Yukutake and David Kikukawa v. Anne Lopez and the City and County of Honolulu,...