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When Government Separates Choices from Consequences
From tariffs to “free” public services, government policies routinely transfer the costs and consequences of individual choices onto someone else.
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How Markets Fought Mosquitoes
More than a cartoon prop, the old-fashioned FLIT gun was one of many innovations that gave ordinary households unprecedented power over pests that plagued us for centuries.
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Made in (North) America: Canada Is Not Our Enemy
The US factories that rely on Canadian steel, parts, energy, and expertise want President Trump not to make those inputs more expensive — and American producers less competitive.
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AI Raises the Value of What It Can’t Replicate
From Broadway to the workplace, people pay a premium for what technology cannot reproduce. AI may make distinctly human qualities more valuable, not less.
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Bond Markets Are Losing Patience — And Putting Governments on Notice
Rising yields are turning sovereign debt from an abstract fiscal problem into an immediate budget constraint.
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Admissions Standards Ration Scarce Resources
Mismatching students and institutions can hurt the very students such policies intend to help — while squandering scarce faculty talent on remedial math.
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How the Dollar Became American
Brendan Greeley’s new book ‘The Almighty Dollar’ traces the dollar’s 500-year journey from a European silver coin to the shaky foundation of American financial power.
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Ironic Inheritance: How Andrew Carnegie’s Millions Still Underwrite the Academy
Academics may distrust concentrated private wealth, but their retirement system owes its origins to one of history’s great industrial fortunes.
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Debt Jubilees Only Change Who Pays
A debt jubilee can erase an obligation on paper, but it cannot erase the underlying economic cost.
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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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When Government Separates Choices from Consequences
From tariffs to “free” public services, government policies routinely transfer the costs and consequences of individual choices onto someone else.
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•
How Markets Fought Mosquitoes
More than a cartoon prop, the old-fashioned FLIT gun was one of many innovations that gave ordinary households unprecedented power over pests that plagued us for centuries.
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•
Made in (North) America: Canada Is Not Our Enemy
The US factories that rely on Canadian steel, parts, energy, and expertise want President Trump not to make those inputs more expensive — and American producers less competitive.
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•
AI Raises the Value of What It Can’t Replicate
From Broadway to the workplace, people pay a premium for what technology cannot reproduce. AI may make distinctly human qualities more valuable, not less.
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•
Bond Markets Are Losing Patience — And Putting Governments on Notice
Rising yields are turning sovereign debt from an abstract fiscal problem into an immediate budget constraint.
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•
Admissions Standards Ration Scarce Resources
Mismatching students and institutions can hurt the very students such policies intend to help — while squandering scarce faculty talent on remedial math.
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How the Dollar Became American
Brendan Greeley’s new book ‘The Almighty Dollar’ traces the dollar’s 500-year journey from a European silver coin to the shaky foundation of American financial power.
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•
Ironic Inheritance: How Andrew Carnegie’s Millions Still Underwrite the Academy
Academics may distrust concentrated private wealth, but their retirement system owes its origins to one of history’s great industrial fortunes.
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•
Debt Jubilees Only Change Who Pays
A debt jubilee can erase an obligation on paper, but it cannot erase the underlying economic cost.
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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.