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Dinner for Two Government Bureaucrats

by Craig Cantoni | Apr 20, 2017 | Blog

Scene: Suburban house in metro Washington, D.C. A GS-12 bureaucrat with the FDA arrives home and is greeted at the door by his wife. “Hi honey, how was your day?” asks the wife, who had just gotten home from her job with the Department of Labor. “It was great,”...

How the Market Is Already Repealing Obamacare

by Stewart Jones | Apr 6, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

There’s a common misconception that if you’re opposed to government services, programs and/or departments, then you’re opposed to building roads, education, people getting affordable health care and even people taking care of the sick and elderly. These misconceptions...

3/31/17 Tom Woods on Trump’s Obamacare repeal failure, a debt-busting infrastructure rebuilding plan, and Russiagate

by Scott Horton | Mar 31, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Tom Woods, an author, senior fellow of the Mises Institute and host of The Tom Woods Show, discusses the 2nd annual libertarian "Contra Cruise" in October 2017; why Trump is working with former nemesis Paul Ryan on reforming Obamacare instead of the conservative...

Real vs Fake Health Care Reform, and How to Tell the Difference

by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Mar 26, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

You want to know why the “freedom caucus” has balked at passing the Trump-backed Ryancare health care proposal? Because the package does not address the core problem of the existing system. They are leaning – correctly – on a brilliant insight from F.A. Hayek. Let’s...

Michelangelo and ObamaCare Reform

by Craig Cantoni | Mar 25, 2017 | Blog

It was almost a certainty that ObamaCare would not be replaced or reformed enough to restore a consumer market in medical care/insurance, one in which the consumer is at the top of the pyramid instead of the bottom. Why was it almost a certainty? Because the...

One More Flaw in Conservative Health Care Reform

by Sheldon Richman | Mar 24, 2017 | Blog, Economics

Conservatives oppose federally mandated health insurance benefits (maternity, etc.), but they favor states having the power to mandate such benefits, which they already have. But conservatives (e.g., the Heritage Foundation) say they also favor a nationwide insurance...

News Roundup 3/24/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 24, 2017 | Blog

Trump's pick for Labor Secretary, Alexander Acosta, was a district attorney in Miami and gave a very lenient plea deal to Jeffery Epstein. Under the plea deal, Epstein was given 13 months in prison but was allowed to work from home during the day. Epstein was...

The Science of Fat vs. the Science of Global Warming

by Craig Cantoni | Mar 22, 2017 | Blog

For over a half-century, the government and those in the medical and science community who fed at its richly nutritious teats of grants and subsidies had declared that it was a scientific fact that dietary fats were a primary cause of heart disease, obesity and...

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