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Building from the Ground Up: Reclaiming the American Housing Boom
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Kevin Erdmann
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January 11, 2022 | Urban Economics
In "Building from the Ground Up: Reclaiming the American Housing Boom", Kevin Erdmann documents how an inappropriate fear of excessive homebuilding led to a self-fulfilling prophecy of recession and financial crisis, which continues to inflate the cost of living and limit economic potential for American families today.
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West Virginia Helps Lead the Nation toward an Interstate Compact to End Corporate Subsidies
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Michael D. Farren
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January 11, 2022 | Corporate Welfare
An estimated $95 billion is spent annually by state and local governments on economic development subsidies. These subsidies remain a tenacious problem, even as support grows for phasing them out. My research suggests that an interstate compact offers an opportunity for a cooperative solution. West Virginia was one of the original six states that proposed legislation to create such a compact in 2019, and the state has an opportunity to become the nation’s leader in moving this initiative forward.
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Healthcare Quality, Insurance Coverage, Pandemic Policy, and Competition: Four Areas for Reform
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Kofi Ampaabeng
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, Bobbi Herzberg
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and Elise Amez-Droz
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January 7, 2021 | Healthcare
One of the most common tools of consumer-directed healthcare is the combination of health savings accounts (HSAs) with high-deductible health plans. However, many restrictions limit the consumer empowerment that this combination was intended to deliver. For example, HSAs, which were introduced in 2003 as part of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, cannot be used to pay for the fees or premiums of a DPC, AHP, or HCSM plan. Congress can rectify the unfavorable treatment of alternative healthcare financing arrangements by including them as eligible HSA medical expenses.
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David Beckworth
1/10/2022 • Macro Musings
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Ana Vidović on Prodigies, Performance, and Perseverance
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Tyler Cowen
1/12/2022 • Conversations with Tyler
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