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What the Fed Can Learn From the McDonald’s Dollar Menu
We live in parallel universes. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is said to have a healthy concern about deflation. McDonald’s franchisees, on the other …
Laissez-Faire Today
This is What a Health Insurance Death Spiral Looks Like
A handful of reports last week suggested that the Obama administration had moved to delay the health law’s individual mandate — the penalty the …
Money Printing: Everything Old Is New Again
While the world has evolved over the centuries, human emotions have remained the same — happiness, sadness, jealousy, greed, fear. The ruling class and …
Insider Trading Ban to Be Extended
From the Tongue-in-Cheek Department of Spy Briefing Books… Washington, D.C. — Jeff Incast, a Democratic representative from California, has tabled a bill that would …
What Government Schools Can Teach Us About Government Health Care
A common argument made in favor of government-financed health care is that it is inherently cheaper than a private system. Strangely, however, the people …
The Plan Isn’t Working
You didn’t want to be the guy chosen to tell Stalin that the wheat crop failed or the production quotas on trucks and cars …
Privacy Malpractice
The online Internet exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act are up and running. OK, they’re up. Uhh, OK, some of them are sort …
Mobile Gun-Free Zones Are Coming to America
From the Tongue-in-Cheek Department of Spy Briefing Books… Washington, D.C. — The complex negotiations aimed at bringing a long-term solution to the federal government’s …
Obamacare’s Website Is Crashing Because It Doesn’t Want You to Know
A growing consensus of IT experts, outside and inside the government, have figured out a principal reason why the website for Obamacare’s federally sponsored …
Our World Through Thomas Paine’s Eyes
I’ve just spent a harrowing weekend reflecting on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, the pamphlet that came out in January 1776 and turned the public …