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How Obamacare Will Do Even More Damage to the Labor Market than the CBO Said

October 15, 2014

This morning, the Wall Street Journal has a piece on “Obama Deniers” — those Democrats running for reelection who are trying their best to distance themselves from the president. More specifically, very few Democrats are running for reelection on the greatness of the ACA or Obamacare. Why? Because there’s not much to say. And that’s even though, as insurance expert Robert Laszewski explained this week […]

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The Administration Gets It All Wrong on Inversions Again

September 24, 2014

Lawmakers have a tendency to fix problems by treating the symptoms rather than the causes. That’s what happened yesterday with the White House’s response to the recent wave of corporate inversions, the practice of  acquiring a foreign company and then relocating one’s legal headquarters out of the U.S for tax purposes. The reason for inverting is obvious to most economists: U.S. companies […]

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The Medicare and Social Security Trustees Report Is Out: Things Aren’t Looking Up

July 30, 2014

The Medicare and Social Security Trustees Report came out this week, and the main story is mostly that the reported improvements to Medicare aren’t likely to materialize and Medicare and Social Security are still insolvent — in other words, without reforms, these programs simply will cease to work the way they’re supposed to in the relatively near […]

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Elizabeth Warren and Friends Want to Make the Labor Market Even More Stagnant than It Is Now

July 24, 2014

Legislation proposed in the House by Democratic representatives George Miller and Rosa L. DeLauro this week would make the labor market even more rigid than it is already. The proposal would regulate part-time jobs by increasing the price of on-call work and limiting flexibility in part-time scheduling will only hurt those the law is ostensibly trying to help. […]

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