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Healthcare
Why Healthcare Workers Are Burning Out, and What To Do About It
July 20, 2021
In a lot of ways, healthcare providers are victims of their own success. Never before in human history have we battled the specters of death and disease so effectively. High demand for healthcare services comes from the often-fulfilled promise of healing, but limited resources inspire inevitable policy and payer battles revolving around access, quality and cost. Clearly, we are all willing to pay a lot for health, as our blossoming national deficits show. But are we getting value for our money?
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A Snapshot of Healthcare Regulations in Southeastern States
July 20, 2021
Research
No Major Surgery Needed as Telemedicine Streamlines Healthcare
July 18, 2021
Editorial
Why American Health Care is Broken and How to Fix It
July 20, 2021
Podcast
Economics & Finance
Pennsylvania Should Consider Creating Regulatory Sandboxes
July 19, 2021
Regulatory Sandboxes are an increasingly common feature in global regulation. Though the exact nature of regulatory sandboxes varies depending on the legal environment and policy preferences of the jurisdiction, as a general rule they can be defined as “a decreed state of exception within a regulatory regime that allows firms to offer products or services for a limited time to a limited number of customers in a modified regulatory environment for the purpose of allowing the firm to test a product or service before it is offered more broadly.”
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Can Bitcoin Become the World's Money? A Soho Forum Debate
July 16, 2021
Podcast
Why Spending Matters in Times of Inflation and High Debt
July 22, 2021
Editorial
The US Doesn’t Have to Spend Billions to Boost Industry. Just Allow More Immigration
July 18, 2021
Editorial
Policy & Regulation
How to Close the Loopholes in the American Rescue Plan's State and Local Pandemic Relief
July 19, 2021
My comment focuses on the harm done by economic development subsidies to the local, state, and national economies and to local and state government finances. I highlight a way that the Treasury can prevent the use of the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund and the Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (together, the Fiscal Recovery Funds) on such subsidies. This issue is relevant to the American Recovery Plan Act (ARPA) because economic development subsidies are commonly granted via targeted tax reductions for particular corporations or industries.
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Better Government Doesn’t Mean Bigger Government
July 19, 2021
Editorial
What The Department Of Energy’s War On Showering Means For Consumers
July 19, 2021
Editorial
The FTC’s Repeal of Enforcement Guidance Is Bad News for Business
July 21, 2021
Editorial
Social Issues
In the Culture War, Culture Is Losing
July 21, 2021
There is an old doctrine originally attributed to the medieval Catholic Church: Error non habet ius—“Error has no rights.” It is particularly associated with the “Syllabus of Errors,” Pope Pius IX’s 1864 broadside against political liberalism, freedom of conscience and the separation of church and state. The argument is that the common good requires the suppression of false ideas that might lead people into error. I mean, if an idea is wrong, how can it claim any right to be tolerated?
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Is $3 (Or Higher) Gas Here to Stay or Gone Tomorrow?
July 20, 2021
Editorial
Stop Calling Professors Professor
July 20, 2021
Editorial
Podcasts
Macro Musings
Scott Sumner on What Milton Friedman Would Think of Monetary Policy Today
July 19, 2021
Scott Sumner and David talk about nominal interest rates as indicators of the stance of monetary policy, fiscal austerity as means of reducing excessive aggregate demand, Friedman’s critique of the Phillips curve and wage and price controls, what Friedman might have said about the recent inflation numbers, and much more.
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Conversations with Tyler
Can India Kickstart Its Economy and Change Its Growth Trajectory?
July 22, 2021
Shruti and Amartya Lahiri discuss the Indian economy in light of the country’s socialist past, distrust of markets, current monetary policy and continuing challenges. Lahiri is the Royal Bank Faculty Research Professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia.
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