The Myth of ObamaCare’s Affordability
The law’s perverse incentives will have the nation working fewer hours, and working those hours less productively. By Casey B. Mulligan • Wall Street Journal Whether…
America’s New Class System
“Clerisy” class does the bidding of tech oligarchs to detriment of the middle class. by Glenn Harlan Reynolds • USAToday We’ve heard a lot of election-year…
How Repealing And Replacing Obamacare Would Help Restore Booming Economic Growth
by Peter Ferrara • Forbes One of the biggest drags on economic growth under President Obama has been Obamacare, enacted on a strictly partisan basis in 2010. That…
A Recovery Stymied by Redistribution
Public policy intended to make layoffs less painful actually made layoffs cheaper and more common. by Casey B. Mulligan Why has the labor market contracted so much and why does…
Regulators Wreck Innovation
Ride-share services benefit consumers, but the taxi commission doesn’t want to give us a good deal. by Glenn Harlan Reynolds The regulatory knives are out for Uber and Lyft, two…
There Is No Better Predictor of Obamacare Than the Veteran Affairs System
The VA offers precisely what Obamacare offers: not a guarantee of treatment in time of need, but a guarantee of a place in line for treatment at a time of…
The Minimum Wage and Economic Reality
by Steve Chapman If you offer people something that is too good to be true, you will always find takers. Ask Bernie Madoff. Or ask Barack Obama. He recently proposed…
ObamaCare is only one of many failed policies that are shackling the economy
Obama’s biggest failure is that he hobbled the U.S. economy. ObamaCare is part of that, but it goes well beyond ObamaCare. by Daniel Henninger The ObamaCare train wreck is plowing…
Economic Malpractice
It’s amazing how little President Obama has learned about economics in his four and a half years in the White House. Growth, incentives, tax reform, tax increases, private investment, the…
Killing the American Dream with the Minimum Wage
Political crusades for raising the minimum wage are back again. Advocates of minimum wage laws often give themselves credit for being more “compassionate” towards “the poor.” But they seldom bother…
The Poor: Reagan vs. Obama
by Ralph R. Reiland I think the poor need another Reagan in the White House. The income of black heads-of-households dropped by 10.9 percent from June 2009 to June 2013.…
Tribute to Margaret Thatcher (October 13, 1925 – April 8, 2013)
Margaret Thatcher was a friend to the United States and the principles of liberty. She rescued the U.K. from economic malaise with economic policies that empowered the individual and harnessed the…
Americans Are Migrating to States with Lower Taxes and Less Regulation
by John Merline Americans are migrating from less-free liberal states to more-free conservative states, where they are doing better economically, according to a new study published Thursday by George…
The economy, jobs, and energy and carbon taxes
George Landrith, president of Frontiers of Freedom, issued the following statement: The economy is not some theoretical concept or ivory tower idea. A strong economy means that Americans have…
The truth about the minimum wage
by Gordon Jones In early 2011, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the constitutionality of ObamaCare (né the Affordable Care Act of 2009). One would think that…