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Christopher Chantrill: Most every corrupt government program begins as a moral crusade and ends up as a spoils system: Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, etc.
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$50 wasn’t the finish line. It was the starting gun for policy finger-pointing and real-world bottlenecks.
Jack Hunter: “From WMDs to bombing Iran, the president who consistently mocked the GWOT is now pushing the same old buttons.”
Trump claimed Washington would pay for the occupation of Venezuela with profits from the country’s oil.
Christopher Chantrill: Most every corrupt government program begins as a moral crusade and ends up as a spoils system: Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, etc.
Federal workers are a powerful lobby in Washington, and taxpayers pay for federal bureaucrats’ wages inflated through federal laws favoring federal unions.
President Trump is planning to appoint a two-star US general to lead the international force that may be deployed to Gaza under the US...
Data shows that the marriage rate and the homeownership rate have been closely connected for decades. Historically, more marriage means more home buying, but...
David Beito’s new biography on Franklin D. Roosevelt is not the hagiographic nonsense that has dominated the US history profession. That is a good...
Inflation does more than just force up prices. It destroys the wealth-producing process, especially with young people who are prevented from acquiring the same...
As Congress scrambles to extend emergency subsidies to keep Obamacare afloat, it can be tempting to view the bill that made healthcare less affordable...
In the new Ken Burns documentary, an old myth—held by the left and right—is repeated: that chaos led to the need for the Constitution...
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho break down the latest FOMC meeting, the real takeaways from Powell’s Fed talk,...