Does Britain Have the World’s Best Health System? Only If You Ignore Outcomes
Once said to be Britain's national religion, at this point the National Health Service might be more accurately described as Britain’s national cult.
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Money Supply Growth Falls Again, Dropping to 105-Month Low
The last time the money supply grew at a smaller rate was during September 2008
Jeff Sessions’s Pot War Is Up in Smoke in Nevada
Recreational marijuana became legal this month in Nevada. AG Jeff Sessions isn't happy about it at all.
Here’s the True Definition of a Recession — It’s Not About GDP
Recessions are the liquidation of a boom that sprang up thanks to a previous period of loose monetary policy.
Big Military Spending Boost Threatens Our Economy and Security
The House overwhelmingly approved a massive increase in military spending, passing a $696 billion National Defense Authorization bill for 2018.
Immunity for Prosecutors Encourages Fraud
Prosecutorial immunity provides an incentive to government prosecutors to engage in fraud if it's good for their careers.
To Fix Healthcare, We Need to Repeal a Lot More than Obamacare
The focus on Obamacare as the source of all our health-care woes has distracted us from the real foundations of the healthcare mess.
Don’t MacLean on Me
Here are a few additional mistakes in Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains
How OPEC Became Irrelevant
Traditional oil-producing countries still fail to face the new reality.
How to Look at Tariffs
Political boundaries of nations may be important for other reasons, but they have no economic meaning whatever. The upshot is that protectionism is not only nonsense, but dangerous nonsense.
