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Bigger Government Means Bigger Fraud: Minnesota's Billion-Dollar Lesson in Incentives
“The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering in its scale and brazenness,”…
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Bigger Government Means Bigger Fraud: Minnesota's Billion-Dollar Lesson in Incentives
“The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering in its scale and brazenness,” The New York Times reported in a bombshell article on Novemb…
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Walter E. Williams Remembered: An Exemplar of Excellence
This week marks five years since the passing of Dr. Walter E. Williams . He had the elegance to die, at 84, minutes after teaching the last class of …
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Shutdown Lessons on Institutional Fragility
The United States recently emerged from the longest government shutdown in its history, one that halted operations, froze budgets, and led to 1.4 mil…
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What the Shutdown Taught Us about Institutional Fragility
The United States recently emerged from the longest government shutdown in its history, one that halted operations, froze budgets, and led to 1.4 mil…
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What the Economics of Envy Can't Answer
Objections to income inequality are commonplace. We hear these today from across the ideological spectrum, including, for example, from the far-left …
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What Uber and AirBnB Really Sell: Sharing with Transaction Costs Slashed
Americans love a garage, but we don’t park cars there . We store old bikes with bent wheels, parts of beds and dressers, and a wide variety of tools…
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Are Labubus Gen Z’s Beanie Babies?
Every era of easy money produces its speculative mascots. In the late 1990s, it was Beanie Babies — tiny stuffed animals that cost under a dollar to …
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