DO YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT (340 EXTRA CALORIES FOR MEDIUM)?: Obamacare restaurant calorie labeling rules will drive up food costs. Domino’s, for example, will have to account for 34 million different pizza combinations. But of course they won’t stop people eating.

DEMAND CURVES SLOPE DOWNWARDS: Amazon’s price cuts at Whole Foods led to a 25% increase in customers.

BREXIT CATCH-UP: The EU Withdrawal Bill passed the UK House of Commons last night 326-90, which is good, but the Bill allows the executive to alter laws by enacting “Henry VIII powers,” which is bad. My colleague Rory Broomfield and I proposed a different approach to reducing EU regulation (based on the successful US experience with BRAC) in our book “Cutting the Gordian Knot.” Meanwhile, Cato Unbound is having a discussion on Brexit this week with some of the smartest freedom-loving minds around – starting with a lead essay from Brexit’s most articulate supporter, Dan Hannan MEP.

BRIGHT NEWS ABOUT DARK MATTER: Education Secretary DeVos may withdraw the toxic guidance documents that have helped spread the poison of disciplinary intimidation on campuses. Joanne Jacobs has more here.

LA TRAHISON DES CLERCS: Alberto Mingardi reviews the late and sorely missed Ken Minogue’s last work, On Liberty and Its Enemies, over at Econlog, with a particular focus on his essay on how intellectuals so often get things wrong. Favorite line: “Foreign despotisms only have to declare their passion to improve the condition of the poor, and many an academic is lying with his back on the floor waving his paws in the air”.

THAT WENT WELL: Plaintiff suing GrubHub over employment status gets dismantled on cross-examination. There are some serious questions to be raised over the difference between an employee and a contractor in the changing American workplace (I explore some of them in this paper), but this guy was not the ideal candidate for poster boy for the “gigs are employment” side.

YEAH, THAT’LL WORK: President Maduro of Venezuela “Caps Prices to Avoid Black Market.” As Duke’s Mike Munger says on Twitter, “I understand Maduro. He’s an idiot. But for the Times to report it credulously is criminal.”