Entitlements
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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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The $46 Trillion Price of Avoiding Social Security Reform
Delaying Social Security reform would spare politicians difficult choices today while leaving taxpayers with a much larger bill tomorrow.
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A Bankrupt America Can’t Defend the World
As interest costs consume an ever-larger share of the federal budget, maintaining an informal global empire becomes fiscally and strategically indefensible.
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An Aging, Shrinking Population: Must a Smaller World Be Poorer?
Humanity is approaching an unprecedented demographic turn. Can productivity outrun population decline?
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Will Trump Accounts Make Every Kid a Millionaire?
The $1,000 seed can grow substantially, but seven-figure wealth requires decades of compounding, continued contributions, and strong market returns.
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Bono’s Hard-Won Lesson About Poverty
Aid may relieve immediate suffering, but only productivity, enterprise, and strong institutions can conquer poverty for good.
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Abdul El-Sayed Has a Socialist Platform and a Capitalist Life
Abdul El-Sayed and his wife prosper by treating their medical credentials as private goods. Now he campaigns against the system that made it possible.
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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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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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Britain’s Problems Didn’t Begin with Brexit
Brexit disappointed both its critics and supporters, but Britain’s economic malaise runs much deeper than the 2016 referendum.
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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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The $46 Trillion Price of Avoiding Social Security Reform
Delaying Social Security reform would spare politicians difficult choices today while leaving taxpayers with a much larger bill tomorrow.
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A Bankrupt America Can’t Defend the World
As interest costs consume an ever-larger share of the federal budget, maintaining an informal global empire becomes fiscally and strategically indefensible.
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An Aging, Shrinking Population: Must a Smaller World Be Poorer?
Humanity is approaching an unprecedented demographic turn. Can productivity outrun population decline?
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Will Trump Accounts Make Every Kid a Millionaire?
The $1,000 seed can grow substantially, but seven-figure wealth requires decades of compounding, continued contributions, and strong market returns.
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Bono’s Hard-Won Lesson About Poverty
Aid may relieve immediate suffering, but only productivity, enterprise, and strong institutions can conquer poverty for good.
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Abdul El-Sayed Has a Socialist Platform and a Capitalist Life
Abdul El-Sayed and his wife prosper by treating their medical credentials as private goods. Now he campaigns against the system that made it possible.
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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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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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Britain’s Problems Didn’t Begin with Brexit
Brexit disappointed both its critics and supporters, but Britain’s economic malaise runs much deeper than the 2016 referendum.