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Obamacare’s Troubles Are Far From Over
The Obama White House has spent the past week trumpeting the supposedly fixed healthcare.gov website, with the hope that the strong negative perceptions now held of Obamacare can be partially reversed...
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When it Pays Not to Work, People Stay Home
Paul Krugman, in his December 9 New York Times column, writes, “Ask yourself how, exactly, ending unemployment benefits would create more jobs.”No one is talking about ending unemployment benefits,...
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Walmart and Harvard: Which is More Selective?
Walmart’s first two stores in D.C. are open for business on H Street and Georgia Avenue. Twenty-three thousand people applied for 800 job openings at the two new stores—an acceptance rate of less than...
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Young, Disgruntled, and Disengaged
How has seven years of pummeling by economic awfulness shaped the views of America’s youngest voters? Last week, my colleagues at Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) released their fall poll of...
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Minimum Wage vs. EITC
Advocates for raising the minimum wage often claim the rate’s real value has fallen since it was first implemented. University of California (Irvine) economics professor David Neumark, in the New York...
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Hey FDA, The Latest Cure Isn’t Just for Princetonians
Students at Princeton University finally received meningitis vaccines this week after the Centers for Disease Control ruled that they could be given a vaccine as yet unapproved by the Food and Drug...
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The Enduring Myth of the Individual ‘Mandate’
The individual mandate is an awkward subject for Obamacare’s architects and defenders. On the one hand, they recognize that it is the most unpopular provision in the entire law. In polls, large...
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2014 Might Be Better Than You Think!
As 2013 draws to a close, we continue to see a gradual broadening and strengthening of the U.S. economy’s recovery from the financial crisis and severe recession that began more than five years ago....
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Why Obamacare Wishes it Was Amazon
Amazon.com has one of the most peculiar business models out there. For much of its history, it has barely turned a profit, even as revenues have skyrocketed (along with its share price). The underlying...
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The End of Obamacare: Just the Beginning of Better Health Care
The Obama administration detected faint signs of a pulse last week in its dysfunctional health benefits exchange web site. But the parade of dismal failures, broken promises, and unsuspecting victims...
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U.S. Energy Policy: A National Money Hole?
U.S. policy regarding green energy investment is troubling. As Congress struggles to pass a budget, green energy programs should be the first to go.A newly-released Reason Foundation report by Victor...
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e21 Asks: Is Inequality Rising?
Last week we asked readers if they thought economic inequality was rising and if an increase is problematic. The most popular response was “yes, and it is a problem,” which received 39 percent of...
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Plugging Along Despite Weakness In Small Business and Labor Dynamism
We think most markets are fully priced waiting for a sense of direction on U.S. and global growth. Recent data has been moderate, beating our expectations. The ISM orders for November were strong, and...
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Many Women don’t Want to be CEO—And that’s OK
On the same day as General Motors picked Mary Barra as its first female chief executive, the Pew Research Center came out with a report entitled “On Pay Gap, Millenial Women Near Parity, For Now.”Have...
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Don’t Punish Energy Producers for Wall Street’s Misdeeds
Congressional passage of Dodd-Frank was intended to address the root causes of the 2008 financial collapse. Most people think that the legislation just applies to banks. But swept into Dodd-Frank are...
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The Case for Worrying About Inequality is Still Overstated
Ezra Klein is in trouble. In recent months, Klein has emerged as one of today’s most intellectually honest and independent-minded liberals, and last week he concluded that the evidence fails to support...
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26 Solyndras
A newly-released Reason Foundation report by Victor Nava and Julian Morris, Stimulating Green Electric Dreams, highlights problems with the government’s green “investments.”The report reviews the...
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The Myth of Increasing Income Inequality
INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARYPresident Obama has called income inequality the “defining challenge of our time,” reflecting the misguided assumption that income inequality in the U.S. has increased in recent...
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Obama Makes the IRS Free Speech Cop Too
As if the Internal Revenue Service did not have enough to do with administering Obamacare, President Obama wants to give it another job: regulating the free speech of his political opponents, while...
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23andFDA
The controversy over the FDA’s recent letter ordering the genetic testing company 23andMe to stop marketing its services for failure to comply with the agency’s regulatory process suggests that the...
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