Poverty
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An Evergreen Warning About Social Security
A new book from Cato answers old questions: can Social Security remain solvent as lifetimes lengthen and birth rates fall?
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When Congress Waged War on Cheap Groceries
Long before Amazon and Walmart, politicians targeted A&P for lowering prices with scale and efficiency. The resulting law protected competitors at the expense of grocery buyers.
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Borrowed Time: The ‘Extend and Pretend’ Economy Must End
Trillions in hidden distress and deferred losses are emerging as borrowers run out of time and options. America’s debt reckoning has begun.
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From Victimhood to Agency: Understanding What is Up to Us
Excuses protect us from guilt, but they also rob us of hope. The habit of denying responsibility may be one of the greatest obstacles to personal and social flourishing.
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How the Left Convinced Young People That Wealth Is Taken, Not Earned
Frustration with high costs has made younger generations more receptive to claims that wealth requires exploitation. But envy-driven attacks only limit our future opportunities.
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Green Growth: Data Show Freeing Economies Doesn’t Harm the Environment
Economic liberalization has often been assumed to have environmental tradeoffs. But decades of data show the incentives of prosperity and preservation are aligned.
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Did New Deal Spending End the Great Depression?
George Selgin’s ‘False Dawn’ empirically demolishes the claim that Franklin Roosevelt pursued a Keynesian recovery strategy.
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Early Progressives Understood What Minimum Wages Do
Progressives once embraced minimum wages as a tool to exclude marginal workers from the labor market. Modern advocates have different goals, but the same economic effect.
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The Myth of a Permanently Poor Underclass
The bottom income quintile is not a static social class but a temporary snapshot of lives in motion. Most Americans do not remain poor for life, and removing policy barriers can help more people move up.
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Hasan Piker and the Marxist Resentment Behind ‘Microlooting’
Affluent activists increasingly treat property rights as morally negotiable, attacking the system that enabled their (and their parents’) success.
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An Evergreen Warning About Social Security
A new book from Cato answers old questions: can Social Security remain solvent as lifetimes lengthen and birth rates fall?
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•
When Congress Waged War on Cheap Groceries
Long before Amazon and Walmart, politicians targeted A&P for lowering prices with scale and efficiency. The resulting law protected competitors at the expense of grocery buyers.
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Borrowed Time: The ‘Extend and Pretend’ Economy Must End
Trillions in hidden distress and deferred losses are emerging as borrowers run out of time and options. America’s debt reckoning has begun.
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From Victimhood to Agency: Understanding What is Up to Us
Excuses protect us from guilt, but they also rob us of hope. The habit of denying responsibility may be one of the greatest obstacles to personal and social flourishing.
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How the Left Convinced Young People That Wealth Is Taken, Not Earned
Frustration with high costs has made younger generations more receptive to claims that wealth requires exploitation. But envy-driven attacks only limit our future opportunities.
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Green Growth: Data Show Freeing Economies Doesn’t Harm the Environment
Economic liberalization has often been assumed to have environmental tradeoffs. But decades of data show the incentives of prosperity and preservation are aligned.
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•
Did New Deal Spending End the Great Depression?
George Selgin’s ‘False Dawn’ empirically demolishes the claim that Franklin Roosevelt pursued a Keynesian recovery strategy.
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•
Early Progressives Understood What Minimum Wages Do
Progressives once embraced minimum wages as a tool to exclude marginal workers from the labor market. Modern advocates have different goals, but the same economic effect.
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•
The Myth of a Permanently Poor Underclass
The bottom income quintile is not a static social class but a temporary snapshot of lives in motion. Most Americans do not remain poor for life, and removing policy barriers can help more people move up.
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•
Hasan Piker and the Marxist Resentment Behind ‘Microlooting’
Affluent activists increasingly treat property rights as morally negotiable, attacking the system that enabled their (and their parents’) success.