Jeffrey A. Singer A qualitative study published August 2 in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that “semaglutide products are actively being sold without prescription by illegal online pharmacies,…
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Jeffrey Miron In many high-paying occupations, the proportion of racial and ethnic minorities is below their percentage in the population (see, for example, these data on physicians, lawyers, and architects). …
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Thank You, Paul Krugman, for Making the Case for Light-touch Crypto Regulation
Jack Solowey and Jennifer J. Schulp Paul Krugman deserves a lot of credit. He provides a living example of why people should not be given unchecked power to make decisions…
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Colleen Hroncich In December 2021, the Friday Feature highlighted KaiPod Learning, an innovative organization that was providing in-person learning communities for children who homeschooled or attended cyber schools. KaiPod centers…
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Nicholas Anthony Will the rise of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) mark the end of cash? For years, people have been concerned about how the use of cash has…
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Alan Reynolds The Federal Reserve chairman and Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) always imagine that they can prevent recession by anticipating trouble in time to stop it. If that were…
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Andrew Gillen Note, this post updates last month’s post. The biggest changes from last month include: the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals halting the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE)…
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Walter Olson Here’s another roundup of short-form items on election law and policy: For all the occasional creakiness of our decentralized way of holding elections under the Constitution, the reports…
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Adam N. Michel The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was projected to lower revenue by $1.5 trillion over ten years by the Joint Committee on Taxation at the…
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Milton Friedman: ‘Crack Would Never Have Existed If You Had Not Had Drug Prohibition’
Michael Chapman Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, a libertarian and one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century, was born on July 31, 1912, and died on November 16,…