Boxers? Briefs.

Quick thoughts on a Monday. Springtime is the best season. By far. The first day of sundress season should be a national holiday. Anyone care to argue any of these claims? 1. The American health system has been broken for a long time. 2. This bill won’t improve quality of service. 3. It won’t decrease prices to [...]

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Mmmm. Bacon.

Rochester Economics Professor Micheal Rizzo, who’s blog shares our affinity for Hayekian humility, had an excellent series of posts over the holidays. In the spirit of the Twelve Days of Christmas, he examined what the last century has shown us about the interaction of scarcity and productivity, and the effects on the cost of twelve [...]

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TABOR, Education, and Growth

There’s an interesting post on the Economist blog today about TABOR, and how it has worked in Colorado and how it might, or might not, work in Maine. Colorado’s TABOR mandated that taxation and state spending could grow no faster than inflation, adjusted for changes in state population, without approval by voter referendum.

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3G Health Care

Peter Suderman does an excellent job of clarifying Ezra Klein’s misconceptions about health care. This is the house they’ve built: an insurance market where plans are written for the healthy and all legal efforts are made to exclude the sick. That’s meant premiums are somewhat lower than they’d otherwise be, but only because the people [...]

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The Last of the Golden Days

California is collapsing.  The Guardian has an outsider’s perspective on the downfall of the world’s eighth largest economy.  The Golden State is fading. California has a special place in the American psyche. It is the Golden State: a playground of the rich and famous with perfect weather. It symbolises a lifestyle of sunshine, swimming pools [...]

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Reader Questions vol I: Patents and Innovation

Frequent contributor (and my brother-from-another-mother) Tom suggests we add an “ask a libertarian” section.  Now we are hardly mouthpieces for a wildly diverse movement that is part party, part philosophy, and we won’t try to be. But we’re certainly glad to engage readers and try to shine some light on why we think freedom, limited [...]

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Responding to a call for socialized health care

Take a look at this video. The video is useful because the producer really tries to strip away many confusing aspects of the health care industry, and in doing so, presents a very clear case for single-payer, government-run, socialized health care. The clarity is a strength and a weakness, because the argument is exposed for [...]

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