J.D. Alt: Will the Democrats Change the Subject?
Will the Democrats get out of their own way?
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Why Hysteria Over the Italian Budget Is Wrong-Headed
A critique of the bad-model-induced fear-mongering over Italy’s proposed budget deficits
Read more...Is India on Its Way Out of Poverty?
Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, discusses a recent UNDP report showing that poverty in India has halved in the last 10 years, and the newly unveiled healthcare plan for the bottom 40% of the population, nicknamed “Modicare.”
Read more...High-Deductible Health Plans Fall From Grace In Employer-Based Coverage
Yves here. The decline in use of high-deductible health insurance policies is important not just for employees who get insurance at work, but for the public generally. The retreat by employers will make it harder to treat high-deductible plans as a preferred option for expanded government-provided care. Note that employers health care costs, as you […]
Read more...Why the Distribution of Wealth Has More to Do With Power Than Productivity
How statistics about wealth mislead, and why that matters.
Read more...Measuring Unfair Inequality
Quelle surprise! A new study deems the US to be the leader in unfair inequality.
Read more...How the Crisis Caused a Pension Train Wreck
Why pension funds, and retirement savers generally, are big victims of the financial crisis.
Read more...Beating the Tax Gap
The UK focuses on the tax gap, how much tax it ought to be collecting versus what it gets. Why isn’t this a concern in the US?
Read more...Michael Olenick: Debunking Yet Another Misleading Gun Study
A gun “study” falls apart when given a cursory examination.
Read more...Why Positive Thinking Won’t Get You Out of Poverty
The New York Times condescends to people in poverty.
Read more...Holding the Line on Torture
An update on the struggle to get US mental health professionals out of the business of advising on torture techniques.
Read more...Witch Hunts in the Western World, Past and Present
Identifying the driving forces behind historical witch hunts and assessing their relevance to today.
Read more...Fear and Loathing — Mostly Loathing — with Chris Hedges at the Harvard Club
A conversation with Chris Hedges about his apocalyptic new book America: The Farewell Tour (Simon & Schuster, August 2018).
Read more...America’s Broken Retirement System is a Recipe for Political Chaos
Bolstering, rather than cutting, Social Security is the solution to America’s retirement train wreck.
Read more...Gaius Publius: What to Expect from a Kavanaugh Court – Government-Funded “Religious” Education
Why Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court would be very bad news.
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