We could improve the way people manage their own spending on health care by combining Health Savings Accounts...
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February 23, 2021 | Weekly Newsletter

Let Patients Manage More of Their Own Health Care Dollars ([link removed])
By John C. Goodman (Forbes, 2/8/21)
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We could improve the way people manage their own spending on health care by combining Health Savings Accounts, Health Reimbursement Accounts, and Flexible Spending Accounts into one easy-to-use account. While we’re at it, we should eliminate across-the-board deductibles, create special accounts for the chronically ill and for primary care, and set up Roth accounts for seniors. READ MORE » ([link removed])

[link removed] New Way to CareSocial Protections that Put Families First ([link removed])
By John C. Goodman
Pope’s Council on Capitalism Should Instead Address Corrupt Governments ([link removed])
By Lawrence J. McQuillan (The Hill, 2/14/21)
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Capitalism has lifted more than a billion people from abject poverty during the past three decades, yet the Vatican’s new papal-private partnership seeks to reform the market economy rather than the governments that impede it from “lifting more boats.” There’s nothing compassionate about using the government to rob from Peter to pay Paul. READ MORE » ([link removed])

[link removed] Pope Francis and the Caring Society ([link removed])
Edited by Robert M. Whaples
Are We Really in a People Crisis? ([link removed])
By Bruce Yandle (Washington Examiner, 2/19/21)
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According to President Biden, we face not only a COVID-19 crisis, but also an economic crisis, a hunger crisis, an affordable care crisis, a housing affordability crisis, a global refugee crisis, a gun violence crisis, and a humanitarian border crisis. By elevating so many challenges to the status of “crisis,” however, we run the risk of embracing panicky approaches that foster government dependence and help create other problems. READ MORE » ([link removed])

[link removed] Crisis and LeviathanCritical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (25th Anniversary Edition) ([link removed])
By Robert Higgs
America Needs a Robert A. Taft ([link removed])
By William J. Watkins, Jr. (National Review, 2/20/21)
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The Republican Party needs new leadership to urge Americans to avoid needless wars and falling deeper into the statist quagmire. Although he never secured his party’s nomination for president, the great senator from Ohio, Robert A. Taft (1889–1953), offers a model for what the GOP and America currently lacks. READ MORE » ([link removed])

[link removed] Crossroads for LibertyRecovering the Anti-Federalist Values of America’s First Constitution ([link removed])
By William J. Watkins, Jr.
A Lesson in Humility, a Lesson for Our Times: Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed ([link removed])
By Alberto Mingardi (The Independent Review, Winter 2020/21)
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The story of two young lovers hindered by war, famine, plague, and a jealous nobleman, The Betrothed (1827) is both one of the world’s greatest works of historical fiction and one of the best treatises of political economy ever penned. It’s no wonder that well-read economists have urged government ministers and business managers to dip into Alessandro Manzoni’s literary masterpiece whenever they have an idle moment. READ MORE » ([link removed])

[link removed] The Independent ReviewWinter 2020/21 ([link removed])
The Beacon: New Blog Posts
* Rush Limbaugh on Air ([link removed]) , by David J. Theroux
* California Bureaucrats Behaving Badly ([link removed]) , by Craig Eyermann
* Dr. Fauci’s Refusal to Face New York Nursing Home Deaths Is Revealing ([link removed]) , by K. Lloyd Billingsley
* Could the IMF’s Recipe for Recovery Spell Economic Ruin? ([link removed]) , by Alvaro Vargas Llosa
* Does Burma Smackdown Signal Biden the Brave? ([link removed]) , by K. Lloyd Billingsley
* Coolidge’s Enduring Thoughts on the Meaning of a Free Republic ([link removed]) , by Craig Eyermann
* Populism, Left or Right? ([link removed]) , by Alvaro Vargas Llosa

Catalyst: New Articles
* Bloomberg: Venezuela Goes Private After Socialism ([link removed]) , by Jon Miltimore
* Regulatory Shadows Make Dark Winter for Alaska ([link removed]) , by Reed Cooley
* Nuclear Power Would Stabilize the Australian Power Grid ([link removed]) , by Paige Lambermont
* The New York Stock Exchange Could Soon Flee the State ([link removed]) , by Brad Polumbo
* How the Pandemic Has Reconnected Generations ([link removed]) , by Pooja Bachani Di Giovanna and Michael Huling


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