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Tune in: Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’s inaugural hearing
Today is the first set of hearings of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a bipartisan 10-member commission created by Congress “to examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current...
View ArticleMSR Dripping with Cynicism
The initial news reports on the Mid-Session Review of the President’s 2012 Budget focused on the Administration’s downgrade of near-term economic growth expectations. In the MSR, the Administration...
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Populist Rhetoric Does Not a Plan Make
There wasn’t much suspense in the run-up to last night’s state of the union address because President Barack Obama long ago signaled the kind of populist and heavily political speech he was going to...
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The Regulatory Future
[This is the fourth in a multi-part series on streamlining government services. See part 1 here. See part 2 here. See part 3 here.]To some extent, the regulatory rationality we addressed in the...
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The UAW Turns Its Crippling Sights South
Having helped to cripple the economies of Michigan, Ohio, and other northern states as well as contributing to the recent bankruptcy of Detroit, the United Auto Workers is turning its attention to more...
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The Changing Politics of Public Sector Pensions
From the 1980s until the Great Recession, the politics of public-sector pensions in most states and cities were relatively stable -- and conducive to increasingly generous benefit schemes. Since 2008,...
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Campaigning is Over, Time to Govern
The electoral victories of Bill DeBlasio in New York and Martin Walsh in Boston have been seen as triumphs for the left. Yet political constraints and the fragile nature of urban economies tightly...
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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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Don’t Worsen Social Security’s Soaring Cost Problem
Followers of politics may have noticed a recent push from the left to expand Social Security benefits above and beyond the current-law growth schedule (which itself remains unfinanced). Such an...
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Why Slower Healthcare Cost Inflation Isn’t Fixing Medicare Finances
Followers of the national healthcare policy debate may have noticed an interesting recent turn. After the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s troubled rollout, the law’s supporters shifted to a new line to...
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The Collapse of the Great Gatsby Curve
As expected, President Obama’s State of the Union address to the nation last week was suffused with the theme of opportunity. Over the past two years, the president has consistently tied the...
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Is Getting Around D.C. About to Get More Expensive?
On Wednesday morning the D.C. Taxicab Commission will hold a public hearing on its proposed regulations targeted at ridesharing companies including Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar. After the hearing, the...
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D.C.'s War on Ridesharing Services
Is getting around the nation's capital about to get more expensive?On Wednesday morning, the D.C. Taxicab Commission held a public hearing on its proposed regulations targeted at popular ridesharing...
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Tune in: Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’s inaugural hearing
Today is the first set of hearings of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a bipartisan 10-member commission created by Congress “to examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current...
View ArticleMSR Dripping with Cynicism
The initial news reports on the Mid-Session Review of the President’s 2012 Budget focused on the Administration’s downgrade of near-term economic growth expectations. In the MSR, the Administration...
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Populist Rhetoric Does Not a Plan Make
There wasn’t much suspense in the run-up to last night’s state of the union address because President Barack Obama long ago signaled the kind of populist and heavily political speech he was going to...
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Watch Closely Obama's Treatment of Unions
Teaser: The motivation behind the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order is neither fairness nor safety. It is entirely about rewarding friends and punishing enemies, and making federal...
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Congress Can Fix the ACA With These 3 Principles
Teaser: The Affordable Care Act presents the incoming Congress with substantive and political challenges. On the one hand its widely-acknowledged problems warrant repair, and the electorate has made...
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Federal Agency: Union Conducted Unfair Labor Practices Against Its Own Members
Teaser: An independent federal agency has found that the National Treasury Employees Union conducted “unfair labor practices” against its own union members. The unfair treatment at NTEU is a symptom of...
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Government By 'Guidance' Quashes Economic Freedom and Rule of Law
Teaser: Freedom is declining in America. The Heritage Foundation-Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom ranks the United States at #12, as does the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the...
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