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- Obamacare’s A Success: What Does That Mean? April 17, 2014
- Censusgate 2014: The ACA, The Administration, and Enrollment Numbers April 15, 2014
- Paul Krugman, the Affordable Care Act, and “Huge Successes” April 14, 2014
- A Libertarian Approach to Anti-Smoking Letter in the NYT April 12, 2014
- What I’m Reading April 5, 2014
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- on Atlas Shrugged Part II: Hank Rearden Confuses his Principles
- on Krugman Gets a Visit from the Confidence Fairy
- A Libertarian Approach to Anti-Smoking Letter in the NYT | Hamsterdam Economics on New York Raises Age for Tobacco Purchases to 21
- Jon Finegold on Patrick Kennedy Misses the Mark on Marijuana Legalization
- More on Myerson: Food for Thought on Sovereign Wealth Funds | Hamsterdam Economics on Myerson’s Five Economic Reforms Fall Short
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Monthly Archives: June 2013
56% of Likely Voters See Gov’t. as a Threat to Individual Rights
From a new Rasmussen poll: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% of Likely U.S. Voters now consider the federal government a threat to individual rights rather than a protector of those rights. That’s up 10 points … Continue reading
Paul Krugman, in his 1999 The Return of Depression Economics, discusses the rise of globalization and “offshoring” or “outsourcing” jobs to Third World countries. Some combination of factors that we still don’t fully understand–lower tariff barriers, improved telecommunications, the advent of …
My article in the Duke Chronicle this week deals with some of the specifics of the debate over California’s health insurance premiums, ultimately pointing out that this is a proxy war that is unlikely to decide anything in either direction. …
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In the recent debate over California’s health insurance premiums, supporters of the ACA cited a Covered California press release stating that health insurance premiums will rise no more than 2 percent and fall as much as 29 percent in 2014. …