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New Report Touts Benefits of Economic Freedom
1.7.2009
The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, today released The Sizzle of Economic Freedom: How Economic Freedom Helps You and Why You Should Demand More, a report that highlights the best scholarly studies measuring the benefits of economic freedom. In producing the study, the authors chose the most recent and academically rigorous peer-reviewed studies in top academic journals.
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First, do no harm
1.7.2009
As we close out the year in one of the worst recessions in modern history, Congress and the Colorado Legislature will be looking to do something — whatever that is — because people want something done — whatever that might be.
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Serious facts, please
1.6.2009
The editorial "The 30 percent solution" (Dec. 30) claimed that "Americans spent more than $2.5 trillion on health care last year" while "46 million of us [went] without any health insurance. Unfortunately, these statements are misleading.
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State’s economy at year’s beginning
1.5.2009
State lawmakers convening on Monday in Olympia will not have to rely on staff reports to tell them how bad the economy is, the evidence is all around them. A few reports they would be wise to read, however, are four released last year that examine the underbelly of the Washington economy.
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Why can't I redistribute my own wealth?
1.5.2009
So Barack Obama got elected president of the United States, allegedly the freest country in the world and in human history, partly on the promise that he will redistribute a goodly portion of our wealth, yours and mine and everyone else’s.
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Foundations take active role on health policy
1.5.2009
Nonprofits have dropped their usual detachment to crusade for healthcare reform in California, opening Sacramento offices staffed by former aides to lawmakers. They have to be careful about IRS rules.
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The SEC Makes Wall Street More Fraudulent
1.5.2009
The mainstream reaction to the Bernard Madoff scandal was inevitable. Whenever a government regulatory agency proves itself to be incredibly incompetent or corrupt, the respectable media swoop in to declare that the "free market" has failed and the agency in question obviously needs more money and power.
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Obama Will Ration Your Health Care
1.5.2009
People are policy. And now that President-elect Barack Obama has fielded his team of Tom Daschle as secretary of Health and Human Services and Melody Barnes as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, we can predict both the strategy and substance of the new administration's health-care reform.
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Assessing Obama's Economic Team
1.3.2009
Conservatives are understandably depressed these days, but they now have something to smile about in President-elect Obama's picks for key economic posts, such as Tim Geithner for Secretary of the Treasury.
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The perils of chasing smoke stacks - and bank assets
1.3.2009
The financial bailout is built on the premise that politicians will correctly pick which firms to aid. This approach, unfortunately, has a long track record of failure.
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How to Pay Doctors? A Lawyer Chimes In
Lawyer's dismissal of billable hours holds lesson for physicians
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California Republican Legislators Find Some Health Dollars
Two "earmarked" funds in surplus: Did voters approve too much tax?
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