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A Useful Rule for Monetary Policy
Teaser: A classic question resurfaced last week during Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report to Congress: should interest rates be set according to a simple rule? A...
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Paul Ryan's New Upward Mobility Plan
Teaser: Scott Winship's take on Paul Ryan's new plan to expand upward mobility. The War on Poverty aspired not simply to move people above an arbitrary threshold by putting cash in their pockets...This...
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How Would Paul Ryan's Opportunity Grants Affect Poverty?
Teaser: In 1996, when President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (better known as “welfare reform”), I was a twenty-three-year-old liberal. After...
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The U.S. Can Export Putin To His Knees
Teaser: Increasing our exports of liquid natural gas would help Ukraine and our other allies who are dependent on Russia for energy. It would hit Russia where it hurts, in the wallet. It would also...
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More Immigration, Stronger Economy
Teaser: The immigration crisis shows just how badly America needs reform to simplify and open the immigration process.This article originally appeared in RealClearPolicy.Debate rages in Congress over...
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Jobs and the Great Recession
Teaser: Job openings and hires have yet to recover from the recession of 2007–2009. These numbers have not yet climbed back to their historical peaks, which they reached in the middle of the last...
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Why Delayed Social Security Reform Costs Us
Teaser: Contrary to the popular argument that we live in an age of austerity, we live in an age of extraordinary opportunity. Yet we block progress by refighting yesterday’s battles. In 2009 every...
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The Potential UK Energy Renaissance?
Teaser: Prime Minister Cameron’s decision to go “all out for shale” is a welcome sign and will aid in reversing the trend away from energy independence. If done correctly, increased energy exploration...
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Medicare Spending Will Rise Higher than Forecast
Teaser: And if the history with the SGR is a predictor of the ACA’s productivity adjustment’s ability to constrain payments to providers, Medicare spending will likely be significantly higher in the...
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How to Stop Corporate Inversions and Make U.S. Businesses More Competitive
Teaser: To stop corporate inversions, the United States needs corporate tax reform modeled off recent reform in the United Kingdom.The food fight over corporate inversions – whereby a U.S. company...
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Cut Unemployment Benefits for Immigration, But Don't Cut Immigration
Teaser: Now that immigrants are eligible for fewer benefits, David Cameron should ensure that as many hard-working immigrants as possible are allowed to enter the country. Angela Merkel’s immigration...
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Bill to Address Fake Campus-Rape Epidemic Goes Too Far
Teaser: Rape is a serious matter. That is why it is unfortunate that a bipartisan group of senators is exaggerating the problem of rape on campus and proposing legislation that encourages academic...
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Would a Block-Granted Safety Net Mean Less Aid to Families?
Teaser: The crucial point to remember is that if the critics of welfare reform—myself included—had succeeded in thwarting it, low-income families would have been worse off, not better off.My last...
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A Guide to the 2014 Social Security Trustees Report
Teaser: On Monday, July 28, the Social Security trustees released our annual analysis of the program’s financial condition. Below I attempt to highlight the most significant news in the Social Security...
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Suddenly Every McDonald's Franchisee Is Worth Suing
Teaser: An NLRB ruling means that McDonald's USA will be considered a joint employer in unfair labor lawsuits brought against its franchisees. The ruling could make it easier for labor unions to...
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Department of Labor Extorts American Farmers
Teaser: Selective enforcement by the federal government of labor law.The Department of Labor has been extorting admissions of employment law violations from American blueberry farmers. Two judges have...
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A Guide to the 2014 Medicare Trustees Report
Teaser: Should we be worried about the long-term fiscal picture of Medicare?My last piece summarized the trustees' 2014 Social Security report, which can be found here. This piece presents highlights...
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S&P’s Fundamentally Flawed Inequality Report
Teaser: On Tuesday, Standard & Poor’s released a new research report entitled, “How Increasing Income Inequality Is Dampening U.S. Economic Growth, and Possible Ways to Change the Tide.” Despite...
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Consumers May Like Onions, But the FDA Doesn't
Teaser: A proposed FDA rule would drastically increase costs for American onion farmers and consumers, without any improvement in public safety. Regulation for the sake of regulation is fast becoming...
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Tax Inversions Help, Not Hurt, the Economy
Teaser: Tax inversions can result in a greater flow of income into the United States. A company such as Medtronic, which is in the process of inverting , can expand its American operations at lower...
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