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Walgreens CEO admits anti-theft measures ‘largely ineffective’

Top executives at Walgreens lamented lost sales from putting products like toothpaste behind lock and key in an effort to crack down on rampant shoplifting plaguing pharmacy chains across the country. “When you lock things up… you don't sell as much,” Tim Wentworth, CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, told investors on a recent earnings call. […]

FDA proposes removing ineffective decongestant found in most cold medicine

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed that a common ingredient in most oral over-the-counter cold medicines be removed from the market because they are ineffective. This move moves the FDA one step closer to removing products containing oral phenylephrine from store shelves. More than a year after the agency's advisory committee reached a […]

Kamala Harris’ wealth redistribution plans could prove both costly and ineffective

The Harris campaign this week announced that the Democratic vice president and her running mate, Apparently I’m thinking Communism, they argue, means “everyone is the same, everyone shares.” If they win in November, they would impose a range of new taxes on Americans, including a tax on unrealized gains. Though Harris and Waltz claim to […]

Lockdown: Incoherent and Ineffective

Our response to the Covid pandemic continues to be incoherent and ineffective. No matter how many interstate comparisons prove that lockdowns confer no permanent benefit, no matter how much economic devastation we endure and how many lives are ruined, we soldier on, refusing to learn from experience. Our panic-driven approach was originally in reaction to […]

GOP worries its problems will outlive Greene’s ineffective motion

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) ineffectual effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) was a big climax, but the House rejects her motion. It could have had a much longer impact than the 35 minutes it took. Leave it empty. The key ramifications are how Mr. Johnson, with Democratic support, will be able to […]