Policy
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Proxy Advisors Pay the Price for Their ESG Crusade
Once firmly established in American finance, the proxy advisory industry now faces regulatory threats and AI-driven challenges. To survive, firms must serve customers, not political agendas.
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Social Security Isn’t a Retirement Account — and Congress Must Stop Pretending It Is
Social Security is pure welfare, not an individual savings program. Denying that only makes reform more difficult.
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Three Lessons from Venezuela’s Economic Collapse
Policy choices turned an oil-rich democracy into a petrostate, then into an authoritarian economy where repression followed redistribution.
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The Latest Trump Administration Grift: Tariff Checks
Trump’s tariffs haven’t boosted manufacturing; they’ve raised costs and disrupted supply chains. A redistributive dividend check can’t reverse the underlying economic harm.
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‘Saving the Family’ Should Start with Sound Money
American’s birth dearth isn’t just cultural — it’s monetary. The best pro-natal policy is to stop making daily life so expensive.
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The High Minimum Wage Blues
If the goal is higher take-home pay, wage subsidies beat wage mandates — without putting mom-and-pops out of business or marginal workers out of a job.
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Tariffs, AI, and the Golden Age of Executive Power
Centralizing policy through executive action and governance “emergencies” is eroding the republic’s foundations.
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Medicaid’s Structure Actually Invites Waste and Fraud
Medicaid’s size and complexity create endless opportunities for gaming the rules. Incentives are skewed and accountability is weak, and the taxpayer always foots the bill.
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Scott’s Tots, Trump Accounts, and What Washington Can Learn from ‘The Office’
If Social Security is any guide, Americans should treat long-term federal promises like “Scott’s Tots”: big applause today, awkward reckoning tomorrow.
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Obesity Economics: How Subsidies Distort the American Diet
Federal subsidies drive food production, consumption, and — unintentionally — chronic disease. Now we’re being asked to subsidize weight loss drugs to fight what farm policy broke.
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Proxy Advisors Pay the Price for Their ESG Crusade
Once firmly established in American finance, the proxy advisory industry now faces regulatory threats and AI-driven challenges. To survive, firms must serve customers, not political agendas.
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•
Social Security Isn’t a Retirement Account — and Congress Must Stop Pretending It Is
Social Security is pure welfare, not an individual savings program. Denying that only makes reform more difficult.
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•
Three Lessons from Venezuela’s Economic Collapse
Policy choices turned an oil-rich democracy into a petrostate, then into an authoritarian economy where repression followed redistribution.
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•
The Latest Trump Administration Grift: Tariff Checks
Trump’s tariffs haven’t boosted manufacturing; they’ve raised costs and disrupted supply chains. A redistributive dividend check can’t reverse the underlying economic harm.
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•
‘Saving the Family’ Should Start with Sound Money
American’s birth dearth isn’t just cultural — it’s monetary. The best pro-natal policy is to stop making daily life so expensive.
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•
The High Minimum Wage Blues
If the goal is higher take-home pay, wage subsidies beat wage mandates — without putting mom-and-pops out of business or marginal workers out of a job.
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Tariffs, AI, and the Golden Age of Executive Power
Centralizing policy through executive action and governance “emergencies” is eroding the republic’s foundations.
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•
Medicaid’s Structure Actually Invites Waste and Fraud
Medicaid’s size and complexity create endless opportunities for gaming the rules. Incentives are skewed and accountability is weak, and the taxpayer always foots the bill.
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Scott’s Tots, Trump Accounts, and What Washington Can Learn from ‘The Office’
If Social Security is any guide, Americans should treat long-term federal promises like “Scott’s Tots”: big applause today, awkward reckoning tomorrow.
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•
Obesity Economics: How Subsidies Distort the American Diet
Federal subsidies drive food production, consumption, and — unintentionally — chronic disease. Now we’re being asked to subsidize weight loss drugs to fight what farm policy broke.