Health care in America is broken and the press and pundits seem desperate to paper over how bad it is.
Read more...Comparative data on immigration doesn’t support the tidy economists’ story that it good for growth…at least not recently.
Read more...How federal preemption of environmental rules can stymie the plans of California and other states to ignore Trump’s policies.
Read more...If you are in the NYC metro area, be sure to come to our meetup tonight!. The more the merrier!
Read more...Why economics is more like phrenology than physics.
Read more...Four Nobel Prize winners agree that rent-seeking is the biggest driver of rising inequality.
Read more...When you’d thought the British had reached the limits of outlandishness on the Brexit front, they manage to outdo themselves.
Read more...Rex Tillerson’s deal with the Kurds when he was Exxon CEO undermined the US in Iraq. How would he square this circle if confirmed?
Read more...Yves here. This post makes a point at the end in passing about the value of multilateralism, even though the TPP was otherwise a very bad scheme on multiple levels. This serves as a reminder to mention something I’ve neglected to say. Trump’s plan to enter into bi-lateral trade deals (after supposedly tearing up extant […]
Read more...Pension-corruption-fighter/state Treasurer Curt Loftis is under attack. Urge everyone you know in South Carolina to come to his defense.
Read more...Citi and Goldman downgrades suggest the Trump trade may be overdone.
Read more...Drone warfare as an example of how the military uses overly-cozy news outlets to sell its pet initiatives.
Read more...How central banks’ policy remedies have taken big steps backwards.
Read more...Best Buy’s repair operations are part of the surveillance state.
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