Bureaucracy
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The Anti-Federalist Warning About America’s Debt Crisis
Brutus feared that unlimited borrowing power would eventually overwhelm political restraint. Congress has accumulated 40 trillion reasons to reconsider that warning.
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GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs Keep Getting Cheaper: Thank Competition
Wegovy’s cash price has dropped 75 percent since 2021 as drugmakers compete directly for patients. When insurers stay out, manufacturers must win customers with lower prices. Competition is making better health more abundant.
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Public Sector Unions Undermine Accountability
Research on schools, policing, and government spending is clear: public sector bargaining forces taxpayers to finance the erosion of their rights.
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Hidden from CPI, These Costs Are Eating Away at Real Wages
Official inflation calculations exclude taxes and asset prices. Add them in, and three decades of modest paycheck gains become losses.
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Congress Reformed Welfare. Bureaucrats Regrew It Anyway
Voters demanded the 1996 welfare reform law that limited eligibility and emphasized work. Since then, executive agencies have used their discretion to quietly loosen those rules.
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The Real Cost of $40 Trillion in Debt
Unchecked spending has pushed the federal debt to $40 trillion, weakening the economy and limiting the nation’s options when the next emergency arrives.
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The Corporate Virtue Trap
Businesses are increasingly judged by ethical scorecards. But when virtue becomes a target, firms learn to optimize the metric — crowding out what actually matters.
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What Slaughtered Pigs Can Teach Us About Europe’s Wine Policy
There’s a senselessness to Europe’s attempt to manage wine supply and dictate prices that echoes the New Deal’s effort to alleviate poverty by destroying millions of pigs.
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The FCC Denies Right to Fair Trial
Closed administrative courts with no impartial reviewers were overruled in SEC v. Jarkesy. Strangely, FCC procedures won’t get the same scrutiny.
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Professionals to ‘Labor’: Why California’s Doctors Are Unionizing
California’s unionization campaign reveals the economic and institutional shifts away from physician ownership and professional autonomy.
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The Anti-Federalist Warning About America’s Debt Crisis
Brutus feared that unlimited borrowing power would eventually overwhelm political restraint. Congress has accumulated 40 trillion reasons to reconsider that warning.
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GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs Keep Getting Cheaper: Thank Competition
Wegovy’s cash price has dropped 75 percent since 2021 as drugmakers compete directly for patients. When insurers stay out, manufacturers must win customers with lower prices. Competition is making better health more abundant.
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Public Sector Unions Undermine Accountability
Research on schools, policing, and government spending is clear: public sector bargaining forces taxpayers to finance the erosion of their rights.
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Hidden from CPI, These Costs Are Eating Away at Real Wages
Official inflation calculations exclude taxes and asset prices. Add them in, and three decades of modest paycheck gains become losses.
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Congress Reformed Welfare. Bureaucrats Regrew It Anyway
Voters demanded the 1996 welfare reform law that limited eligibility and emphasized work. Since then, executive agencies have used their discretion to quietly loosen those rules.
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•
The Real Cost of $40 Trillion in Debt
Unchecked spending has pushed the federal debt to $40 trillion, weakening the economy and limiting the nation’s options when the next emergency arrives.
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•
The Corporate Virtue Trap
Businesses are increasingly judged by ethical scorecards. But when virtue becomes a target, firms learn to optimize the metric — crowding out what actually matters.
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•
What Slaughtered Pigs Can Teach Us About Europe’s Wine Policy
There’s a senselessness to Europe’s attempt to manage wine supply and dictate prices that echoes the New Deal’s effort to alleviate poverty by destroying millions of pigs.
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•
The FCC Denies Right to Fair Trial
Closed administrative courts with no impartial reviewers were overruled in SEC v. Jarkesy. Strangely, FCC procedures won’t get the same scrutiny.
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Professionals to ‘Labor’: Why California’s Doctors Are Unionizing
California’s unionization campaign reveals the economic and institutional shifts away from physician ownership and professional autonomy.