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Tweet The Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal relays the undeniable news that fiscal realities are not optional. A slice: Say what you will about 2025, the year is off to a rocky start for anyone who needs to figure out how to fund a government. Bond yields are rising across the developed world, raising some awkward questions about when politics will catch up with new economic realities. In the U.S., 10- and 30-year Treasury yields are […]
Sage Steele Loses Claim That Her Agents Didn’t Properly Protect Her Free Speech Rights
From the California Department of Industrial Relations Labor Commissioner in Creative Artists Agency v. Steele, handed down in August but just posted on Westlaw (for more on Steele’s lawsuit against ESPN, see this post and this later article about the case being settled): Creative Artists Agency, LLC (“CAA”) filed a Petition on September 14, 2022. CAA alleges that … Sage Steele … failed to pay commissions for a procured multi-year television hosting contract with ESPN…. This case involves […]
Questioning the Housing Crisis: Recap and Wrap-Up
Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States experienced a much higher rate of inflation than at any time during the prior few decades. Like the prices of many goods and services, the cost of housing rose rapidly, with the median home price increasing almost $100,000. (Figure 1.) Unsurprisingly, many potential homebuyers were—and still are—shocked and upset. As in years past, many politicians have latched on to the anger surrounding the recent housing […]
Otero County sheriff’s deputy facing murder charge after fatally shooting teen
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Certificate of Need Laws and Health Care Expenditures
Peter Van Doren The Washington Post recently described a Nebraska Supreme Court case challenging so-called certificate-of-need (CON) laws that require state permission to operate a health care facility. From 1965 until the early 1980s Medicare encouraged health care expenditures because of its cost-plus reimbursement framework. Rather than change the incentives in the reimbursement framework, the federal government responded with requirements that states enact CON programs that required permits for all large health care facility expenditures. The thinking was that because all […]
Where do innovations really come from? (tl;dr – Mostly, the private sector)
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House Passes First Immigration Bill of 119th Congress
The House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that aims to deport undocumented migrants charged with nonviolent crimes. 28 Democrats joined all Republicans to pass the first immigration bill of this Congressional session. Cato scholar David Bier posted on X about this bill saying “The Laken Riley Act pretends to be about stopping ILLEGAL immigrants who commit crimes. In fact, it’s a Trojan horse designed to destroy legal migration because nativists cannot help themselves. They simply don’t care about illegal […]