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SAVING SOCIAL SECURITY SIMPLIFIED

…running out of money!” Except it isn’t. And all the Professional Defenders of Social Security rushed out to tell us, “We can save Social Security: just make the rich pay…

Stephen Moore Looks at Mississippi

…the national average of 5.2%. Mississippi tort reform is making the poor richer, and the rich lawyers less fabulously rich. Most people would have avoided writing this article. Kudos to…

Letter from an angry reader

…Globalization—poorly designed for all us schmucks. It was designed for the rich….end of story. WTO rules? Ok: Last time. China played that WTO game by stiffing its own companies to…

Why Scott Sumner is Wrong

…not exactly a choice that makes any sense. There are some rich European countries, some rich Asian countries, and then there’s Argentina. There’s a conspicuous absence of countries that not…