…government would be “then, thenceforward, and forever free.” Historian Richard Hofstadter famously complained that the Emancipation Proclamation had “all the moral grandeur of a bill of lading,” but its legalistic…

…evaluation of Minnesota’s 50-year reliance on managed-care ideology. This ideology has two parts: (1) an evidence-free diagnosis of health care inflation; (2) an evidence-free solution that doesn’t address the causes…

…free of charge, some states and the federal government also require certain plans, such as marketplace plans, to cover additional services either free of charge, like annual checkups, or prior…

 – by New Deal democrat Housing data for October, like that for September, has to be viewed with an asterisk, due to Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Since the effects of…

…the president. Here’s the post (but you should feel free to skip it for now, we’ll discuss the salient points below): I am going to lead a movement to get…

…fact increased premium subsidies, made free bronze plans newly available to millions, and gave the market an enrollment boost estimated at 5% in 2019. That’s because the ACA’s income-adjusted subsidies are set…

Mark Thoma begins with a hilarious typo, but eventually gets to the Quote of the Decade (if not century) from Alan Blinder: If we economists stubbornly insist on chanting ‘free…

…I get the usual incomprehension as to why Democrats can possible oppose Free Trade given the proven mathematical reality of Ricardian Comparative Advantage. And the reason is simple, perhaps too…

…costs, which for many students means student loans. Whether or not they complete the degree, student loan borrowers can’t discharge these loans through bankruptcy. Of course, college isn’t free in…

…suggested there should have been more regulation of the derivatives market that Greenspan has called its recent collapse a “once in-a-century credit tsunami.” Called a modern day Cassandra by Stanford…