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Government Promised Healthcare for All. It Gave Us Waiting Lines
The question is simple: will we continue feeding the healthcare bureaucracy — or will we empower patients?
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Ordoliberalism as a Response to Populism
Market-based ordoliberalism shares some initial impulses with populism, but tries to reduce concentrated power and corruption.
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Shooting the American Dream in the Foot?
An expanding, interventionist state is crushing the atmosphere of opportunity that once allowed the middle class to build itself up.
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Repo Market’s Warning Light is Flickering
Rising repo rates, a shrinking reserve pool, and heavier use of the Fed’s backstop all indicate banks’ “ample reserves” are thinning amid a slow liquidity squeeze.
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Liberty, Risk, and Permission to Live Dangerously
If we want a free, dynamic society of responsible citizens, safetyism browbeating has got to stop.
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Bureaucracy Without Brakes: Overregulation Closes Home-Based Garage
Part of the threat behind “everyone must…” is that forgotten laws can be used to settle personal scores…even when the outcome is absurd.
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Playing Chicken with the Federal Budget: The Rational Stupidity of Shutdowns
Government shutdowns might look irrational, but they follow a familiar script. When political types gain more from the standoff than the solution, collisions become routine.
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Toxic Empathy Is Killing NYC’s Gifted Programs
Investing in achievement and excellence lifts every member of society. Operating from envy only pushes the median down.
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Sow a Trade War, Harvest a Farm Crisis
Farmers have weathered droughts, floods, and pests — but Trump’s trade policy may be their toughest test yet. As China halts soybean imports, even the most productive growers are facing mounting losses.
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How to Prove Economists Wrong About Tariffs: Never Do What You Threatened
The administration’s tariff regime looks like a success only because it was never actually implemented. Economic pain is postponed, but so is accountability.
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Government Promised Healthcare for All. It Gave Us Waiting Lines
The question is simple: will we continue feeding the healthcare bureaucracy — or will we empower patients?
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•
Ordoliberalism as a Response to Populism
Market-based ordoliberalism shares some initial impulses with populism, but tries to reduce concentrated power and corruption.
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•
Shooting the American Dream in the Foot?
An expanding, interventionist state is crushing the atmosphere of opportunity that once allowed the middle class to build itself up.
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•
Repo Market’s Warning Light is Flickering
Rising repo rates, a shrinking reserve pool, and heavier use of the Fed’s backstop all indicate banks’ “ample reserves” are thinning amid a slow liquidity squeeze.
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•
Liberty, Risk, and Permission to Live Dangerously
If we want a free, dynamic society of responsible citizens, safetyism browbeating has got to stop.
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•
Bureaucracy Without Brakes: Overregulation Closes Home-Based Garage
Part of the threat behind “everyone must…” is that forgotten laws can be used to settle personal scores…even when the outcome is absurd.
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Playing Chicken with the Federal Budget: The Rational Stupidity of Shutdowns
Government shutdowns might look irrational, but they follow a familiar script. When political types gain more from the standoff than the solution, collisions become routine.
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Toxic Empathy Is Killing NYC’s Gifted Programs
Investing in achievement and excellence lifts every member of society. Operating from envy only pushes the median down.
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•
Sow a Trade War, Harvest a Farm Crisis
Farmers have weathered droughts, floods, and pests — but Trump’s trade policy may be their toughest test yet. As China halts soybean imports, even the most productive growers are facing mounting losses.
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How to Prove Economists Wrong About Tariffs: Never Do What You Threatened
The administration’s tariff regime looks like a success only because it was never actually implemented. Economic pain is postponed, but so is accountability.