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Save the auto industry, pay for health

comparative disadvantage to foreign auto companies because they pay for part of employee (including retired employee) health insurance. This dollar figure has grown far faster than inflation for over a…

Taxes and cuts

…debt burden that will most likely exceed any comparative level of net debt in peacetime US history. Of course, for regular readers, this warning of mine is nothing new. So…

…the risk to meet its growing demand for oil. Comparative advantage might be decreasing for US firms. If you were an Iraqi nationalist, would you hold up the oil law,…

Part ll on roles of government/private sector public health

comparative analysis. Drug compounds under review are applied in extremely small quantities to primary hepatocyte cells in vitro. The cellular activity of these dosed compounds is then evaluated against the…

Tax Progressivity and Income Inequality

…Inequality: The United States in Comparative Perspective“. Professor Smeeding used a unique data set from a project called the Luxembourg Income Study to gain various perspectives on differences in income…

Health Care Intelligence Failure?

…care system. Instead, what I want to suggest is that the indicators available on comparative health care quality send only weak and contradictory signals. Much better research is required…believe that…

Free Trade: Bill Buckley v. Lou Dobbs

…for free trade, which is the doctrine of comparative advantage. Even though there is a universalization of skills, in an age when anybody can type on a keyboard, the acquisition…