Daily Economy
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This Medicaid Fix Saves More Than Adding Work Requirements
Equalizing federal subsidies between states and programs could save Medicaid $40 billion per year, and give states options for reducing its growth.
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Socialism, Not the Embargo, Explains Nearly All of Cuba’s Poverty
A synthetic control allows researchers to disentangle causal effects: the primary cause of Cuba’s poverty is its repressive socialist regime, with just 10 percent of the gap resulting from the trade embargo.
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Three Overlooked Benefits of Self-Driving Cars
They’re delivering economic, environmental, land use, and safety improvements. What else does the advent of autonomous vehicles portend?
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How Interest Rates Set Asset Prices: One Weird Trick
A low funds rate artificially inflated asset values for much of the past 30 years. Zombie industries are now addicted to cheap borrowing.
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Physics Meets Finance: Theoretical Consequences of Man-Made Gold
Modern physics has managed to turn lead into gold. Is the end of scarcity in sight? Look to oil, rubber, and diamonds for clues.
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DEI is a Con: Five Hallmarks of a Hustle
Corporations and universities are distancing themselves from social virtue-signaling. But behind new branding, the grift is alive and well.
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John Milton, Eric Weinstein, and the Battle for the Marketplace of Ideas
The marketplace of ideas is one of the great vehicles by which our society becomes better tomorrow than it is today.
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Could Quitting the United Nations Backfire?
Leaving the UN may satisfy critics, but it would cost the US some of its most powerful tools for shaping international outcomes.
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Why California Gas Prices Are the Highest in America
California’s gas taxes and regulatory costs alone account for more than $1.30 per gallon — nearly double the national average.
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Social Security is Not a Ponzi Scheme, but in One Way It’s Worse
Unlike unwary investors, future generations can’t willingly opt into — or out of — the Social Security shakedown.
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This Medicaid Fix Saves More Than Adding Work Requirements
Equalizing federal subsidies between states and programs could save Medicaid $40 billion per year, and give states options for reducing its growth.
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Socialism, Not the Embargo, Explains Nearly All of Cuba’s Poverty
A synthetic control allows researchers to disentangle causal effects: the primary cause of Cuba’s poverty is its repressive socialist regime, with just 10 percent of the gap resulting from the trade embargo.
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Three Overlooked Benefits of Self-Driving Cars
They’re delivering economic, environmental, land use, and safety improvements. What else does the advent of autonomous vehicles portend?
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How Interest Rates Set Asset Prices: One Weird Trick
A low funds rate artificially inflated asset values for much of the past 30 years. Zombie industries are now addicted to cheap borrowing.
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Physics Meets Finance: Theoretical Consequences of Man-Made Gold
Modern physics has managed to turn lead into gold. Is the end of scarcity in sight? Look to oil, rubber, and diamonds for clues.
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DEI is a Con: Five Hallmarks of a Hustle
Corporations and universities are distancing themselves from social virtue-signaling. But behind new branding, the grift is alive and well.
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•
John Milton, Eric Weinstein, and the Battle for the Marketplace of Ideas
The marketplace of ideas is one of the great vehicles by which our society becomes better tomorrow than it is today.
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•
Could Quitting the United Nations Backfire?
Leaving the UN may satisfy critics, but it would cost the US some of its most powerful tools for shaping international outcomes.
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•
Why California Gas Prices Are the Highest in America
California’s gas taxes and regulatory costs alone account for more than $1.30 per gallon — nearly double the national average.
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•
Social Security is Not a Ponzi Scheme, but in One Way It’s Worse
Unlike unwary investors, future generations can’t willingly opt into — or out of — the Social Security shakedown.