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**Does the New Yorker Even Know What Free Market Think Tanks Do?**

Last week, a New Yorker article described David and Charles Koch’s generous philanthropy toward free-market think tanks as a product of pro-corporate economic self-interest. But if that were really tr More...

That’s Not a Human Right!

“Asian-American men suffer from stomach cancer 114 percent more often than non-Hispanic white men.” That’s one piece of evidence supposedly demonstrating that the United States comes up short on More...

Obamacare Squeezes Students

Could college students not covered by their parents’ insurance plans be forced into more expensive plans by Obamacare? Colleges and universities typically offer their students low-cost health plans de More...

I Want Your Money

We’re looking forward to this film: Jim Van Eerden, the producer of the film, told a group of bloggers at The Heritage Foundation today that he wants the film to help promote a national convers More...

What Is Failure?

In his latest column, Richard Epstein observes: The unemployment rate is higher now than it was when the stimulus program began. The secret of our success, evidently, is that the number of unemplo More...

Growing Hayek’s Intellectual Heirs

The Austrian school of economics, which for decades has been doing intellectual war with the Keynesians and their pump priming prescriptions, is experiencing a revival these days. One of the key figur More...

Learn from Germany?

These data, from David Brooks’s latest column, undermine the case for even more stimulus: According to Gary Becker of the University of Chicago, the Americans borrowed an amount equal to 6 percent More...

**New Issue of The Insider Out**

The editor’s note: Among the startling facts about America’s fiscal situation are these: Federal spending has grown 62 percent faster than inflation since 2000. President Obama’s budget will doubl More...

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Hanging Up On Liberty: How Prepaid Mobile Laws Restrict Freedom, Impose Onerous Regulations and Fail to Stop Criminal Behavior

Source: Institute for Policy Innovation

Prepaid wireless plans are designed to provide flexibility to consumers and to address some of the complaints about previous mobile wireless service plans. They are particularly appealing to a underserved part of the marketplace and have enjoyed great success More...

Capitalism, Democracy and Environmental Quality

Source: National Center for Policy Analysis

Developing countries with limited natural and institutional resources can improve air and water quality more efficiently by increasing the amount of economic freedom in society rather than by expanding democratic control over collective resource allocations. D More...

Trade Agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea: What Are We Waiting For?

Source: National Center for Policy Analysis

American businesses pay billions of dollars in tariffs each year on exports to countries that are willing to eliminate those tariffs. Why? Because Congress has failed to ratify three key trade agreements already negotiated and signed by the United States. More...

19th Annual Highway Report

Source: Reason Foundation

Overall, North Dakota, Montana and Kansas have the most cost-effective state highway systems. Rhode Island, Alaska, California, Hawaii and New York have the least cost-effective roads. More...

Say It Ain’t So: Massive Federal and State Tax Hikes Around the Corner in 2011

Source: Illinois Policy Institute

As Illinois families dive into back-to-school shopping, smart moms and dads will account for how looming tax hikes will affect their household spending. A combination of the soon-to-expire Bush tax cuts (a series of tax reductions made between 2001 and 2006) a More...

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