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• Americans Are Drowning in Student Loans, New Household Debt Report Shows
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  Craig Eyermann | Thursday, February 21, 2019

  The amount of delinquent student loan debt in the United States has reached a new high. What can be done to solve this growing crisis?

• What the Economic Models of Nobel Laureate William Nordhaus Say on Climate Change
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  Robert P. Murphy | Monday, October 22, 2018

  Here are three surprising facts about Nordhaus’s model that are relevant to today’s policy debate.

• Strong Women Don’t Need the State to Get Them Corporate Board Seats
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  Mary L. G. Theroux | Sunday, September 23, 2018

  California’s politicians owe it to their constituents to turn their attention to the (mis-)management of their own house and quit hiding their ineptness behind the smoke and mirrors of “diversity,” “equity,” “justice,” and all the other goods government is worst at delivering.

• A Look at Pay for Federal Employees Compared to Their Private-Sector Counterparts
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  James D. Agresti | Wednesday, September 5, 2018

  Some politicians and an association of federal employees have criticized Trump for canceling federal employee pay raises, saying that federal workers are underpaid and deserve a raise. However, a broad range of studies have found that most federal civilian employees are paid better than comparable workers in the private sector.

• The Illusion of School Choice
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  Antony Davies James R. Harrigan | Wednesday, August 16, 2017

  In private schools, as in private enterprise in general, poor performance drives funding away by driving paying customers away. Yet in public schools, poor performance is used as an excuse for increased funding. With incentives like these, is it any wonder that public schools are failing our children so badly?

• Why the SEC Is Terrified of Cryptocurrency
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  Josie Wales | Tuesday, August 1, 2017

  Nothing scares the government more than something it can’t control, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealed this week that it is terrified of cryptocurrencies – as well it should be.

• Why the English Major Is Dying
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  Mark Hamilton | Monday, February 27, 2017

  Colleges and universities have begun to structure their curriculum mainly to keep the student loan money rolling in, often ignoring rigor – hence the lesser need for full-time teachers. The somewhat predictable result has been declining English major enrollments in the US.

• Castro Was Monstrous, and So Is Our Embargo
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  Alice Salles | Wednesday, November 30, 2016

  Instead of looking at the details of Obama’s decisions and how Cuba runs its own economy, the public prefers to panic over what the President-elect has said. How about taking a hard look at what the current president has enabled, which will allow the incoming president to be even more of a corporate hack than he is?

• How College Costs Lie to Us
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  Hayden Padgett | Friday, September 23, 2016

  Federal aid awards have kept pace with rising enrollment figures, thereby allowing students and their parents to ignore rising tuition costs.

• #37 – If FDR’s New Deal Didn’t End the Depression, Then It Was World War II that Did
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  Burton W. Folsom | Friday, December 26, 2014

  Wars aren’t cures for depressions. They simply divert manpower and resources away from what consumers want to what government wants to win the conflict.