Unpublished CRS Memo: Obama Administration Has Missed Half Of Obamacare's...
In recent months, President Obama and his subordinates have waived or delayed a number of Obamacare’s notable features, such as the law’s employer mandate, and its procedures for protecting taxpayers...
View ArticleGov’s unhelpful help: Insolvent local gov’ts still trapped
In mid-May, Gov. Cuomo supposedly solved a big problem: what to do about New York’s insolvent cities, towns, and counties. Yet Cuomo designed his new state-run “financial restructuring board” to be...
View ArticleMuni Investors Beware: If You Get Burned, You Deserve It
Detroit's bankruptcy has provoked a considerable amount of debate about how the municipal bond market is changing. The city's emergency financial manager, Kevyn Orr, has even declared that he would...
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Making an investment in at-risk kids
It’s the beginning of the school year. Some students are walking into school fresh from summer vacation. Of course, kids on sports teams have been at school already for some weeks training to take part...
View Article'Public Service' Loan Forgiveness: A Flawed White House Aid Plan
In a series of speeches last week, President Obama promoted policies designed to “make college more affordable and make it easier for folks to pay for their education.”He attracted attention mainly for...
View ArticleA Fast Food Strike Staged to Benefit a Rich Union
Ordinarily Americans view a strike as workers demanding higher pay or better benefits. This Thursday, Americans will see a different kind of strike at fast food restaurants around the country, planned...
View ArticlePatent Office as a Stakeholder for Market Access
Has a third barrier to market access emerged to hinder the pharmaceutical Industry?First, it was regulators that stood in the way of pharmaceutical products getting to market. The past decade or so has...
View ArticleOn Labor Day 2013, Welfare Pays More Than Minimum-Wage Work In 35 States
Since 2009, the Fair Labor Standards Act has dictated that the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. Some people think that’s too low; others think it’s too high. But it turns out that, in 35 states,...
View ArticleLarry Summers' Views On Women Shouldn't Disqualify Him
With Fed chair Ben Bernanke’s term ending in January 2014, the race for his successor is on. One candidate is Harvard University economics professor Larry Summers, whose views on women should not...
View ArticleEurope's Economic Crisis Explained Through Soccer
As Europe suffers through a quagmire of failed policies, sky-high unemployment, and a rise in political extremism, even the region’s most venerated institution, soccer, has experienced drastic...
View ArticleRoad Rage: States Get Creative To Fund Highways
This Labor Day, many Americans are enjoying their last summer weekend at the beach or mountains and the traffic jams that accompany these holiday weekends.Yet with cars becoming more fuel efficient,...
View ArticleMore Bankruptcies Won’t Solve Cities’ Crises
In debating the meaning of Detroit’s collapse, commentators on the right and the left have found evidence for the benefits of municipal bankruptcy as a way to put distressed cities back on track.“More...
View ArticleGOP Divides On Whether To Shut Down The Government Over Obamacare Funding
Last week, Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R.) sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.), “informing Senator Reid that we will not vote for a continuing resolution that funds Obamacare,”...
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Interactive Map: In 13 States Plus D.C., Obamacare Will Increase Health...
Obamacare makes many significant changes to the U.S. health-care system, but one category of change stands out above all others: the degree to which the law reshapes the market for...
View ArticleWhite House Publishes Regulations For Obamacare's Individual Mandate
On Tuesday, the Obama administration released the final regulations for Obamacare’s notorious individual mandate—the provision in the health care law that requires most Americans to purchase health...
View ArticleA Lesson From the Wreckage in Detroit: Retiree Health Care Is Ripe for Reform
The focus on retiree pensions has eclipsed an equally important target for reform in Detroit and other cash-strapped American cities: retiree health care benefits.In their attempts to turn the Detroit...
View ArticleObamaCare And Regulatory Lock-In Threatens The Biggest Healthcare Tech...
We are entering an era of big government medicine. Few could claim that ObamaCare hews to the market principles of Adam Smith, or state’s rights, or individual choice. And Silicon Valley’s DNA of...
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Time for U.S. to Emulate Mexico?
South of the border, President Enrique Peña Nieto appears to be on track to gain approval from the General Congress of the United Mexican States to reverse decades of tight federal control over the...
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When It Pays Not to Work
Despite a decline in the jobless rate to 7.3 percent in August from 7.4 percent in July, the labor force data released Friday were disturbing. The reduction in the unemployment rate was caused by a...
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Has Unemployment Fallen For the Wrong Reason?
Everyone apparently agrees—the August jobs numbers were lousy. Despite the fact that the unemployment rate fell for the second month in a row, continuing a march downward that started in late 2009,...
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