While inflation in the Beehive State has slowed over the last year, more than one-third of Utah small businesses still rank inflation as their No. 1 concern. Considering Utah saw more than 71,000 new business applications filed in 2023, reducing the financial burden on small businesses is ...

Some people mistakenly believe that economics teaches “greed is good.” Greed is a selfish and excessive desire for more, whether that be money, junk food or adoration. When we think and talk about greed, as the (in)famous economist Milton Friedman once pointed out, we almost always ...

When some Wasatch County residents opened their 2022 property tax bills and saw that their taxes had nearly doubled, they knew something was wrong. What they didn't know was that they were about to uncover a systemic failure in Utah's property tax assessment system — one that creates unfair ...

In physics, we keep track of how complex a system is by determining its “degrees of freedom.” In essence, this provides a guide for how many different ways something can change to create possible futures. A cart on a track can only move back and forth in one line, but a tumbling cat has ...

My husband and I just became a statistic in a very small minority. Less than 7% of couples in this country have been married 50 years or more. (I married when I was 5 years old. ...) Anyways, when friends learn this about us, they ask how we did it. Some turn to my husband and ask him why. ...

In U.S. presidential elections, the value of a vote is entirely dependent upon three factors: 1. location 2. location 3. location. This indisputable fact means that in each presidential election millions of votes are utterly irrelevant and immaterial. Consider: Recently, Trump received ...