The Lighthouse®
There is a lot of talk today in America about inequality—but all of it needs to start (though it usually doesn’t) with this fact: the consumption levels of the poorest 5 percent of Americans today stand at the 95th percentile of all people who have ever lived! Time to revise (drastically) the textbooks!
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John C. Goodman (Forbes)
Can we have a safety net that meets the needs of people who experience misfortune without creating a permanent class of nonworking dependents who behave in socially undesirable ways? “Yes,” says John Goodman, the father of health savings accounts—and he shows us how.
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K. Lloyd Billingsley (The Beacon)
In the government’s vision, growth of EPA power equals progress and any curtailment of EPA power allegedly takes the country “backwards.” But, in a 9-0 ruling regarding property rights, the Supreme Court just said otherwise. It’s a watershed event.
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Richard K. Vedder (New York Post)
When scholars at the conservative Heritage Foundation reach the same negative conclusion about a policy as scholars at the liberal Urban Institute, you can be sure the thing is bad. So why, exactly, are we still considering federal student-loan forgiveness?
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Volume 26, Issue 23: May 31, 2023
Robert M. Whaples (Real Clear Markets)
There is a lot of talk today in America about inequality—but all of it needs to start (though it usually doesn’t) with this fact: the consumption levels of the poorest 5 percent of Americans today stand at the 95th percentile of all people who have ever lived! Time to revise (drastically) the textbooks!
READ MORE »
John C. Goodman (Forbes)
Can we have a safety net that meets the needs of people who experience misfortune without creating a permanent class of nonworking dependents who behave in socially undesirable ways? “Yes,” says John Goodman, the father of health savings accounts—and he shows us how.
READ MORE »
K. Lloyd Billingsley (The Beacon)
In the government’s vision, growth of EPA power equals progress and any curtailment of EPA power allegedly takes the country “backwards.” But, in a 9-0 ruling regarding property rights, the Supreme Court just said otherwise. It’s a watershed event.
READ MORE »
Richard K. Vedder (New York Post)
When scholars at the conservative Heritage Foundation reach the same negative conclusion about a policy as scholars at the liberal Urban Institute, you can be sure the thing is bad. So why, exactly, are we still considering federal student-loan forgiveness?
READ MORE »
The Beacon: New Blog Posts
- The Debt Ceiling Deal, by Craig Eyermann
- A Rent Control Renaissance Is Underway in the US—and It’s Sure to Make the Housing Shortage Worse, by Jack Elbaum
- Eliminating the Debt Ceiling: Is There Anything the 14th Amendment Can’t Do?, by Robert E. Wright
Catalyst: New Articles
- Bud Light’s Sales Implosion, Explained (by Mises), by Jon Miltimore
- Green Energy Has a Dirty Secret, by Connor Vasile
- Johannesburg: Where Apartheid Never Ended, by Scott Beyer
