“Now hiring” signs are everywhere. Flights, construction projects, and healthcare services are delayed, or unavailable, due to labor shortages.
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July 13, 2022 • Weekly Newsletter
The Disappearing American? ([link removed])
Victor Davis Hanson (American Greatness)
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“Now hiring” signs are everywhere. Flights, construction projects, and healthcare services are delayed, or unavailable, due to labor shortages. What is going on? Lots—including pandemic subsidies. But also: Americans are having too few children. As a culture, will we just...fade away? READ MORE » ([link removed])
FutureEconomic Peril or Prosperity? ([link removed])
Edited by Robert M. Whaples et al.
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Rethinking Regulatory Capture ([link removed])
Randall G. Holcombe
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Nobel laureate George Stigler concluded that regulatory agencies are ‘captured’ by the firms they regulate. But, in the end, legislators are the ones that ‘capture’ businesses too reliant on the state—as Disney is finding out at great cost. READ MORE » ([link removed])
Liberty in PerilDemocracy and Power in American History ([link removed])
By Randall G. Holcombe
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SCOTUS v. CFPB Could Restore Self-Government ([link removed])
K. Lloyd Billingsley
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In the Dobbs case, the U.S. Supreme Court took abortion law out of the federal ambit and sent it back to the states. In West Virginia v. EPA, the high court tackled the federal administrative state. Another key case to watch is Consumer Financial Protection Board v. All America Check Cashing. At stake: whether unelected federal bureaucrats can continue to operate without congressional oversight. READ MORE » ([link removed])
Crossroads for LibertyRecovering the Anti-Federalist Values of America’s First Constitution ([link removed])
By William J. Watkins, Jr.
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Dobbs: Independent Institute Scholars Spar Over Abortion Ruling ([link removed])
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In the wake of the Dobbs decision, abortion is still contentious—but no longer fruitlessly so. Debate among citizens about abortion now actually matters. And scholars at the Independent Institute just schooled us on how to have a civil disagreement on the subject. Check out the most recent episode of our Independent Outlook! READ MORE » ([link removed])
In All FairnessEquality, Liberty, and the Quest for Human Dignity ([link removed])
Edited by Robert M. Whaples et al.
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