Daily Economy News
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American Fracking Undermines Authoritarians
Consumers are the real winners, and authoritarian governments, dependent on petroleum rents, are then forced to reform and become accountable to their citizens.
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Four Consequences if Republicans Fail on Tax Reform
After their chronic inability to move the needle on Obamcare reform, Republicans have now turned their attention to taxes. They have to give up show-and-tell politics for get-it-done legislation. Is that too much to ask? Hopefully, no. Probably, yes.
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Health Care Reform and Hard Choices
While there is no substitute for free markets to truly contain health care costs, many factors complicate the debate.
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Why America Is Great and Cuba Is Not
When Cubans flee their homeland, they say adiós to an island of lies. One such exile, with meticulous attention to academic rigor, has devoted his life to raising awareness regarding the plight of his fellow countrymen under the totalitarian communist regime.
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Why Pre-Existing Conditions Cannot Be Legislated Away
The law of unintended consequences will eventually rear its ugly head, and younger people will opt out of redistributive insurance schemes. Their exit creates a death spiral of sorts, where premiums will eventually sky rocket for the elderly and those who remain.
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Destruction Dogma Reveals Economic Science in Disarray
Those cranks and crackpots are now at the commanding heights of academia, preaching the same old Gospel of destructionism and irrationalism, dressed up as “modern macroeconomics.”
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Teaching Unemployment Across the Curriculum
AIER is going to the Council for Economic Education’s annual conference in New York to share with the national audience of teachers, curriculum developers, administrators, and researchers our approach of infusing economics into various fields of study.
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Atlantic Canadians Pay Up for “Just and Reasonable” Gas Prices
Marco Navarro-Génie identifies many adverse effects from imposing both minimum and maximum prices on gasoline — including rent seeking and industry protectionism — not that it made sense to begin with.
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Two Ingredients for Common-Sense Immigration Reform
The key to true immigration reform is a streamlined immigration process that allows immigrants and employers to freely interact in the marketplace, while incentivizing assimilation and social harmony among new arrivals to the United States.
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Rising Economist Ion Sterpan Will Be Missed
RIP to the 2017 AIER C. Lowell Harriss Fellowship winner, Ion Sterpan. He was a bright young man who was making important contributions to the study of private governance.
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American Fracking Undermines Authoritarians
Consumers are the real winners, and authoritarian governments, dependent on petroleum rents, are then forced to reform and become accountable to their citizens.
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•
Four Consequences if Republicans Fail on Tax Reform
After their chronic inability to move the needle on Obamcare reform, Republicans have now turned their attention to taxes. They have to give up show-and-tell politics for get-it-done legislation. Is that too much to ask? Hopefully, no. Probably, yes.
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Health Care Reform and Hard Choices
While there is no substitute for free markets to truly contain health care costs, many factors complicate the debate.
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•
Why America Is Great and Cuba Is Not
When Cubans flee their homeland, they say adiós to an island of lies. One such exile, with meticulous attention to academic rigor, has devoted his life to raising awareness regarding the plight of his fellow countrymen under the totalitarian communist regime.
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Why Pre-Existing Conditions Cannot Be Legislated Away
The law of unintended consequences will eventually rear its ugly head, and younger people will opt out of redistributive insurance schemes. Their exit creates a death spiral of sorts, where premiums will eventually sky rocket for the elderly and those who remain.
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•
Destruction Dogma Reveals Economic Science in Disarray
Those cranks and crackpots are now at the commanding heights of academia, preaching the same old Gospel of destructionism and irrationalism, dressed up as “modern macroeconomics.”
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•
Teaching Unemployment Across the Curriculum
AIER is going to the Council for Economic Education’s annual conference in New York to share with the national audience of teachers, curriculum developers, administrators, and researchers our approach of infusing economics into various fields of study.
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•
Atlantic Canadians Pay Up for “Just and Reasonable” Gas Prices
Marco Navarro-Génie identifies many adverse effects from imposing both minimum and maximum prices on gasoline — including rent seeking and industry protectionism — not that it made sense to begin with.
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Two Ingredients for Common-Sense Immigration Reform
The key to true immigration reform is a streamlined immigration process that allows immigrants and employers to freely interact in the marketplace, while incentivizing assimilation and social harmony among new arrivals to the United States.
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Rising Economist Ion Sterpan Will Be Missed
RIP to the 2017 AIER C. Lowell Harriss Fellowship winner, Ion Sterpan. He was a bright young man who was making important contributions to the study of private governance.