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Obamacare’s Great Illusion, Part Two: The Government-Protected Monopolies Driving Up Healthcare Costs
Washington subsidizes the bill while certificate-of-need laws, hospital consolidation and opaque pricing keep competitors out. Only genuine competition…
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Obamacare’s Great Illusion: The Free Market Is the Real Fix
A $33,284 insurance policy with a $224 out-of-pocket premium has not become a $224 product. Washington can subsidize the bill. Only genuine competition…
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Winning the AI Race Means Putting America to Work, Not Putting Innovation on Hold
America wins the AI race when American businesses, workers and industries become the most effective users of artificial intelligence in the world — not…
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The Refinery Mistake: How the West Shot Itself in the Foot
The West spent decades making new refineries harder to build while closing existing capacity. We did not eliminate petroleum demand. We outsourced the…
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The Bond Market Is Flashing a Warning
The 10-year Treasury yield reached 5.34 percent, its highest since 2002. This is not a prediction of an imminent sovereign-debt crisis. It is the market…
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The House Has Shown Its Cards
Scott Bessent says he is the house. In saying it so openly he may have shown the market the house’s cards — the debt, the deficit, the refinancing…
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Freaky Friday in New York: Kathy Hochul and the Genie Who Deleted the Data Centers
Satire. New York wishes its data centers away — and the governor spends one full day living as the infrastructure she banned, discovering that banning a…
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Fantasy Friday: BREAKING — Thousands Fill Manhattan for “No Kings” Rally Against King Mamdani’s 78-Degree Decree
Satire. Demonstrators flood Midtown to protest “thermostat authoritarianism” and the Royal Cooling Proclamation No. 78, demanding the ancient right to set…
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Warsh’s Inheritance: Beyond the Funds Rate
Most coverage of Kevin Warsh’s confirmation will focus on what he does with the federal funds rate. That is the wrong story. The Chair’s real power is the…
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Capital, Contracts, and the Cost of Politicizing Markets
When Politics Rewrites the Rules, Capital Rewrites the Map Let’s start with the facts — the actual policy moves. Within hours of taking office, Zohran…
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Billionaires Against the Ladder: The Ultimate American Hypocrisy
There is a defining contradiction in American economic life today, and it deserves to be stated plainly—without euphemism, apology, or academic fog. Some…
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When Government Decides You Don’t Own Your Business Anymore
Seattle’s Grocery Store Plan and the Quiet Death of an American Principle Seattle’s new mayor wasted no time making her governing philosophy unmistakably…
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