Judge Rules Healthcare Reform âUnconstitutionalâ
A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that healthcare reform is unconstitutional and expects the Obama administration to honor that ruling while it’s being appealed. But states and private companies...
View ArticleU.S. Corporate Tax Rate the Highest
By Chris EdwardsJapan has announced that it will cut its corporate tax rate by five percentage points. Japan and the United States had been the global laggards on corporate tax reform, so this leaves...
View ArticleMeasuring GNH (âGross National Happinessâ)
This evening, when I finÂished cleanÂing up the kitchen after our famÂily dinÂner, I glanced at the curÂrent issue of the EconÂoÂmist. The cover feaÂtures this headÂline: the Joy of GrowÂing...
View ArticleWikileaks Cable: Martinelli Is a Threat to the Rule of Law in Panama
By Juan Carlos HidalgoLast August I warned about the troubling signs coming from Panamaâs president Ricardo Martinelli. Elected in 2009 on a free market platform, Martinelli has quickly embraced...
View ArticleAre U.S. Multinationals to Blame for High Unemployment?
By Daniel GriswoldMany Americans believe the unemployment rate remains stubbornly high because U.S. multinational companies have been outsourcing and offshoring jobs to low-wage countries at the...
View ArticleHealthcare Repeal: How Would It Affect Coverage And Cost?
[Soon] the new GOP-controlled House of Representatives will be voting on and is expected to pass a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) –Â lock, stock, and barrel. There is virtually no chance...
View ArticleObesity: On The Rise In Developing Nations
Emerging economies must act immediately to halt rising obesity rates before the epidemic becomes as severe as it is in first-world countries, according to new report by the Organization for Economic...
View ArticleTunisia: An Omen for Other U.S.-Backed Regimes in the Muslim World
By Malou InnocentThe sudden collapse of the Tunisian government on Friday underscores the turmoil toward which the Muslim world seems inescapably drifting. As I wrote earlier today at The National...
View ArticleOECD: âCyberwarâ Overhyped
By Jim Harper(HT: Schneier) Here’s a refreshingly careful report on cybersecurity from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s “Future Global Shocks” project. Notably: “The authors...
View ArticleState Corporate Welfare Programs Under Fire
By Tad DeHavenOne positive outcome of the recession, as the states struggle to find revenue to spend, is that state subsidies to businesses are facing increased scrutiny. This week the New York Times...
View ArticleFirst Report of the Council on the Ageing Society
The Council on the Ageing Society is one of the Global Agenda Councils created by the World Economic Forum in 2008. It addresses global issues associated with our ageing society and has the task of...
View ArticleEU Trade Deal Could Cost Canada $3B For Drugs
A trade deal being negotiated between Canada and the European Union could cost Canadians another $2.8 billion annually in drug costs - notably, by delaying the availability of lower-cost generics in...
View ArticleOccupational Licensing: It Isnât Just for Doctors and Lawyers Any More
By David Boaz"Cat groomers, tattoo artists, tree trimmers and about a dozen other specialists across the country . . . Â are clamoring for more rules governing small businesses," reports the Wall...
View ArticleOMB Director Lew on the New Budget
By Tad DeHavenPresident Obama will release his budget blueprint for fiscal 2012 next week. If an op-ed penned by his budget director, Jacob Lew, in Sundayâs New York Times is any indication, the...
View ArticleWhy Ryan-Rivlin Beats ObamaCare on Costs â and Spending
By Michael F. CannonWashington Post blogger Ezra Klein asks of Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wisc.) Medicare voucher proposal (co-authored with former Congressional Budget Office director Alice Rivlin): Why are...
View ArticleNew Era of Big Government
By Tad DeHavenThe George W. Bush administration ushered in a new era of big government. The Obama administration has built on Bush's profligacy, and the president's new fiscal 2012 budget proposal...
View ArticleTending the Family Heart: Our New Parenting Book
Tending the Family Heart is a new e-book by Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker that seeks to affirm the importance of family and validate the simple things parents can do every day to nurture the âheart...
View ArticleNew Video Explains that Tax Competition Is a Powerful Mechanism to Restrain...
By Daniel J. MitchellHere's a new mini-documentary from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, narrated by Natasha Montague of Americans for Tax Reform, that explains why the process of tax competition...
View ArticleStaying Happy in Bad Times
A year and a half ago, USA Today published an interesting article as a kind of wrap-up of the four-day annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. Among the happiness talk was how to stay...
View ArticleMonday Links
By George Scoville How can we have an "adult conversation" on the budget if the White House won't release its budget and deficit projections to the public? A new guide to India's uneven spread of...
View Article2011 Budget Battle in Perspective
By Tad DeHavenToday the Cato Institute placed an ad in major newspapers highlighting specific spending cuts that policymakers should make to restore our country's fiscal sanity and economic stability....
View ArticleDeloitte Survey: Concerns about Government
By Tad DeHavenA Deloitte survey of 527 executives at mid-market companies (annual revenues of between $50 million and $1 billion) found âtempered optimismâ that the economic recovery will continue....
View ArticleClinton, Obama, and Hayek
By David BoazPresident Obama has been saying that if the United States government can find and eliminate Osama bin Laden after ten years of searching, it can do anything: Already, in several...
View ArticleThe Kingâs Speech
By David Boaz His Royal Highness Prince Charles, who lives, well, like a king, off wealth that his ancestors stole, appears at a Washington Post conference to tell his still-recalcitrant former...
View ArticleBoehnerâs Price for Increasing the Federal Debt Limit
By William A. NiskanenHouse Speaker John Boehner, in his speech to the Economic Club of New York on Monday night, was very clear about the conditions for which he would support an increase in the...
View ArticleAs a Matter of Fact, the Baltic Nations Are a Success Story
By Daniel J. MitchellI got a few cranky emails after my post suggesting the United States should copy the Baltic nations and implement genuine spending cuts. These emailers were upset that I favorably...
View ArticleWednesday Links
By George Scoville Next up for marriage equality: Perry v. Schwarzenegger. Please join us at 12:00 p.m. Eastern today as co-counsels for the plaintiffs Theodore Olson and John Boies join Center for...
View ArticleTyler Cowen: The Great Stagnation
Businessweek has a very flattering article on Tyler Cowen and how his book The Great Stagnation has prompted a shift in the debate about poor economic growth. Having read the book I strongly recommend...
View ArticlePlaintiffs Should Be Cautiously Optimistic about Latest Obamacare Appeal
By Ilya ShapiroCINCINNATI — Now for something completely different, and not just because the spirited Sixth Circuit judges were much more skeptical of the government’s position than the Fourth Circuit...
View ArticleTax Cuts, Loopholes, and Government Size
By Chris EdwardsPresident Obama wants to raise revenues by reducing tax deductions and other tax breaks, which the administration calls âspending in the tax code.â Donald Marron of the Tax Policy...
View Article12 Things I like About Recovery
AA is the guide to my Higher PowerRecovery gives many benefits such as those related in the 12 promises of recovery. Each and every member of any 12 Step Fellowship has things they value.One day I...
View ArticleBroken Windows All Over
By Tom G. PalmerIt reminds us of the need to repeat, and repeat, and repeat the same messages. Â Tornadoes, diseases, and wars are not good for “the economy.” Â They may be good for hardware stores,...
View ArticleSenate Report Slams Nation-Building Efforts in Afghanistan
By Malou InnocentAs confirmed by yet another U.S. government report, this one prepared by the Democratic majority staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Americaâs nation-building mission in...
View ArticleDeMint on the Economic Development Administration
By Tad DeHavenLast week, I wrote about reauthorization of the Economic Development Administration, which is currently being debated on the Senate floor. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) wrote an op-ed in...
View ArticleIBM as a Metaphor for Economic Success
By Daniel GriswoldInternational Business Machines Inc. is celebrating its 100th anniversary as a company today. In this time of economic worry and uncertainty, itâs worth taking a moment to consider...
View ArticleOberstar Comes to the EDAâs Defense
By Tad DeHavenWhen Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN) lost his bid for reelection in November, it brought to an end a congressional career that spanned nearly a half century. As a former chairman of the House...
View ArticleChained CPI: A Stealth Tax Increase
By Chris EdwardsAs we close in on congressional votes to increase the federal debt limit, negotiators are coming up with all kinds of ideas to hike taxes. (Suspiciously, they haven’t revealed very...
View ArticleEconomic Freedom
By Caleb O. BrownSome smart folks have drawn strongly on the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World Annual Report to put together a short video extolling the virtues of economic freedom....
View ArticleGoodbye Marcus Welby, Hello Hospital Employee MD
Close your eyes and think of a doctor. Do you see a Marcus Welby type? A middle aged, smiling and friendly gentleman who makes house calls?  Is his cozy office staffed by a long time nurse and...
View ArticleStrong Cities, Strong Communities: Bad Idea
By Tad DeHavenWhen government officials come up with what they claim to be a wonderful new idea, I often think of an old Saturday Night Live skit from 1990 poking fun at commercials for blue jeans. The...
View ArticleTrade Helps Explain Texas-Sized Job Growth
By Daniel GriswoldAs its governor, Rick Perry, weighs a run for the White House, Texas has drawn attention for its healthy job growth. Since the recession ended in June 2009, Texas has accounted for...
View ArticleMonks Successfully Defend Their Right to Earn an Honest Living
By Ilya ShapiroLast week, a federal court in Louisiana ruled that a state law prohibiting sales of caskets by non-licensed merchants was unconstitutional. A monastery that has made caskets for over a...
View ArticleJohn McCain Wakes Up in Bizarro World
I remember back to the dawning of the current Cycle of Unease, the days immediately after the 9/11 attacks.I'd been ignoring politics almost entirely; politics, current affairs, world news and for the...
View ArticleCan competition and integration co-exist in a reformed NHS?
Scan or Click to go to King's Fund website to download 'Can competition and integration co-exist in a reformed NHS?' Title: Can competition and integration co-exist in a reformed NHS? The Skinny:...
View ArticleOpen Public Services White Paper
Title: Open Public Services White Paper Scan or click to download the 'Open Public Services White Paper'. The Skinny: The Open Public Services White Paper establishes how the Coalition Government...
View ArticleAmericans Are Not Convinced of Top Down Economics
By Emily EkinsSeveral recent polls have shown Americans are becoming increasingly skeptical of of Washingtonâs economic planning capabilities. According to a recent Washington Post poll, 73 percent...
View ArticleFirst steps in improving phlebotomy: The challenge to improve quality,...
Scan or click to download 'First steps in improving phlebotomy: The challenge to improve quality, productivity and patient experience' Title: First steps in improving phlebotomy: The challenge to...
View ArticleUsing Tragedy to Justify Mental Health Services in Delaware
In a letter that could’ve been written in virtually any state by any National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) representative, NAMI Delaware executive director Matthew Stehl and president Mary Berger...
View ArticleObama Supports VAT Sympathizer for Top Job at Council of Economic Advisers
By Daniel J. MitchellThe White House has announced that it is nominating Alan Krueger, a professor at Princeton, to be the new Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. In a Freudian copy-editing...
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