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The Elevator Problem: How Rent-Seeking and Regulation Make Modern Life Unaffordable
If we want affordable, accessible, mid-rise construction, we need more elevators. Why are we building so few of them?
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Three Lessons from Venezuela’s Economic Collapse
Policy choices turned an oil-rich democracy into a petrostate, then into an authoritarian economy where repression followed redistribution.
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How Money Laundering Became a Catch-All Excuse to Bully and Surveil
Crypto-related prosecutions illustrate how allegations of crime are used to target privacy-enhancing tools and the people who build them.
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Privacy for the Powerful, Surveillance for the Rest: EU’s Proposed Tech Regulation Goes Too Far
Protecting kids is a weak pretext for total digital surveillance. What’s worse, the EU’s monitoring exempted its own politicians from scrutiny. Their privacy matters, but not yours.
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The Quiet Ban on Physician-Owned Hospitals
In most fields, we celebrate innovators and experts that start new firms and improve efficiency. In health care, we’ve forbidden it for a decade.
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Shooting the American Dream in the Foot?
An expanding, interventionist state is crushing the atmosphere of opportunity that once allowed the middle class to build itself up.
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Tariffs Are Missing the Real Enemy: Yesterday’s Products
If protectionist logic is correct, the past is guilty of unfair competition that harms workers in factories making automobiles, batteries, lightbulbs, and other goods that are increasingly imported from the past.
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Lessons from Google Search Ruling: Markets Evolve, Bureaucrats Don’t
In its remedies decision, the court curbed the DOJ’s sweeping demands and largely upheld Google’s position.
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Render Unto Caesar? Even the Pope Faces Confusion Complying with US Taxes
The ultra-complex US Tax Code creates opportunity for fraud and manipulation, while suppressing our economic potential… and stressing us out.
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New Study: California’s $20 Minimum Wage Killed 18,000 Restaurant Jobs
Wage floors destroy opportunities, harming the poor most of all. Californians just got a hard lesson in basic economics.
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The Elevator Problem: How Rent-Seeking and Regulation Make Modern Life Unaffordable
If we want affordable, accessible, mid-rise construction, we need more elevators. Why are we building so few of them?
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•
Three Lessons from Venezuela’s Economic Collapse
Policy choices turned an oil-rich democracy into a petrostate, then into an authoritarian economy where repression followed redistribution.
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How Money Laundering Became a Catch-All Excuse to Bully and Surveil
Crypto-related prosecutions illustrate how allegations of crime are used to target privacy-enhancing tools and the people who build them.
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Privacy for the Powerful, Surveillance for the Rest: EU’s Proposed Tech Regulation Goes Too Far
Protecting kids is a weak pretext for total digital surveillance. What’s worse, the EU’s monitoring exempted its own politicians from scrutiny. Their privacy matters, but not yours.
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The Quiet Ban on Physician-Owned Hospitals
In most fields, we celebrate innovators and experts that start new firms and improve efficiency. In health care, we’ve forbidden it for a decade.
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•
Shooting the American Dream in the Foot?
An expanding, interventionist state is crushing the atmosphere of opportunity that once allowed the middle class to build itself up.
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•
Tariffs Are Missing the Real Enemy: Yesterday’s Products
If protectionist logic is correct, the past is guilty of unfair competition that harms workers in factories making automobiles, batteries, lightbulbs, and other goods that are increasingly imported from the past.
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Lessons from Google Search Ruling: Markets Evolve, Bureaucrats Don’t
In its remedies decision, the court curbed the DOJ’s sweeping demands and largely upheld Google’s position.
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•
Render Unto Caesar? Even the Pope Faces Confusion Complying with US Taxes
The ultra-complex US Tax Code creates opportunity for fraud and manipulation, while suppressing our economic potential… and stressing us out.
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•
New Study: California’s $20 Minimum Wage Killed 18,000 Restaurant Jobs
Wage floors destroy opportunities, harming the poor most of all. Californians just got a hard lesson in basic economics.