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Overhaul for the Uninsured?

“Full reliance on a public budgeting system for providing access to medical care is a certain prescription for millions of disappointed patients.” ~James C. Capretta

Kroger Invests $1B in Antitrust Defense

“Consumers would be better served if companies could spend more time on improving their services and less on fending off litigation.” ~Noah C. Gould

Lose the Political Informality

“Politicians’ first-name basis… is a mercenary maneuver to gain our confidence on the cheap. It is literally a con game. ~Donald J. Boudreaux

Is America’s Cultural Glue Weakening?

“Not so long ago in America it was considered rude to ask anyone other than one’s inner social circle which positive moral actions they undertook. But it now happens every second of every day.” ~David Rose

DNC Celebrates ‘Freedom,’ But Not Liberty

“As the DNC has just demonstrated so well, a host of rhetorical abuses can find a foothold in offering so many freedoms but so little liberty.” ~Gary M. Galles

Slumming It: How Commerce Once Communed with Sin

“The miracle of the modern economy owes as much to the accidental playhouse of 1576 as to the intentional jurisprudence of 1625 and the late-to-the-game Glorious Revolution in 1689.” ~Scott Drylie

Users, Not Regulators, Decide When Google Will Fall

“Congress should Google the benefits of economic freedom and also search up how to curtail the gargantuan levels of government spending…a bulging bureaucratic state is more costly for Americans than the growing success of our most innovative firms.” ~Kimberlee Josephson

To Grow Freely, Resist the ‘New Right’

“Under the guise of a new form of conservatism, this faction argues for increased government intervention in the economy, protectionist measures, and the strengthening of monopoly labor unions.” ~Vance Ginn

Inflation Slightly Below Target in July

“The federal funds rate target range is likely to be at least a full percentage point lower by the end of the year. That would significantly reduce the distance the Fed needs to travel in order to return monetary policy to neutral.” ~William J. Luther

Harris’s Child Tax Credit Plan Punishes Working Families 

“Now is not the time to add even more spending to future taxpayers’ tab. The very Americans whom the Harris plan seeks to help — children — are the ones who will ultimately face the burden of repaying it in the form of higher taxes and dampened economic growth.” ~Kevin Corinth

Did the Bank of England Set Britain on the Road to Ruin? 

“Officials sent out critical letters to Truss and her Chancellor, containing an analysis that has since proved incorrect, and which were immediately leaked to the press. The damage was done – the Bank and the blob had their fall guy.” ~Iain Murray

Overhaul for the Uninsured?

“Full reliance on a public budgeting system for providing access to medical care is a certain prescription for millions of disappointed patients.” ~James C. Capretta

Kroger Invests $1B in Antitrust Defense

“Consumers would be better served if companies could spend more time on improving their services and less on fending off litigation.” ~Noah C. Gould

Lose the Political Informality

“Politicians’ first-name basis… is a mercenary maneuver to gain our confidence on the cheap. It is literally a con game. ~Donald J. Boudreaux

Is America’s Cultural Glue Weakening?

“Not so long ago in America it was considered rude to ask anyone other than one’s inner social circle which positive moral actions they undertook. But it now happens every second of every day.” ~David Rose

DNC Celebrates ‘Freedom,’ But Not Liberty

“As the DNC has just demonstrated so well, a host of rhetorical abuses can find a foothold in offering so many freedoms but so little liberty.” ~Gary M. Galles

Slumming It: How Commerce Once Communed with Sin

“The miracle of the modern economy owes as much to the accidental playhouse of 1576 as to the intentional jurisprudence of 1625 and the late-to-the-game Glorious Revolution in 1689.” ~Scott Drylie

Users, Not Regulators, Decide When Google Will Fall

“Congress should Google the benefits of economic freedom and also search up how to curtail the gargantuan levels of government spending…a bulging bureaucratic state is more costly for Americans than the growing success of our most innovative firms.” ~Kimberlee Josephson

To Grow Freely, Resist the ‘New Right’

“Under the guise of a new form of conservatism, this faction argues for increased government intervention in the economy, protectionist measures, and the strengthening of monopoly labor unions.” ~Vance Ginn

Inflation Slightly Below Target in July

“The federal funds rate target range is likely to be at least a full percentage point lower by the end of the year. That would significantly reduce the distance the Fed needs to travel in order to return monetary policy to neutral.” ~William J. Luther

Harris’s Child Tax Credit Plan Punishes Working Families 

“Now is not the time to add even more spending to future taxpayers’ tab. The very Americans whom the Harris plan seeks to help — children — are the ones who will ultimately face the burden of repaying it in the form of higher taxes and dampened economic growth.” ~Kevin Corinth

Did the Bank of England Set Britain on the Road to Ruin? 

“Officials sent out critical letters to Truss and her Chancellor, containing an analysis that has since proved incorrect, and which were immediately leaked to the press. The damage was done – the Bank and the blob had their fall guy.” ~Iain Murray