In a recent NBER report by David Altig et. al., researchers found that by earning an extra $1,000, one in four of the poorest households, regardless of age, gives half to two-thirds of their paycheck to the government in taxes due to marginal net tax rates above 70 percent on earned income.[1] This has significant implications for work incentives and tax credit eligibility if filers combine their incomes and continue working. [read post]

Once implemented, this legislation will ensure that the dominant industrial global food system is anointed as the only legitimate manner of food production and distribution, a deception that amounts to a covert continuation of the Enclosure Movement.[1]   Just as the Enclosure acts during the 17th through 19th centuries drove peasants off what was once communal land, the food safety legislation will serve to bar small- and medium-sized business people from engaging in food… [read post]

Nikola Šainović et al., Case No. [read post]

From crowd-sourcing and domain squatting websites for the next U.S. president to a frame-by-frame recreation of the entire Bee movie, MSCHF is redefining what it means to challenge norms of traditional art and law.[1] With antics including a “Ketchup or Makeup” art drop in collaboration with Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty brand or a series of fake Andy Warhols amidst an original, this art collective is certainly causing a bit of MSCHF and testing the extent of creativity in art… [read post]