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PowerLinks 01.31.18

January 31, 2018 • by Joe Carter

PowerLinks 01.31.18

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Why is the State of the Union always ‘strong’?

I have a can’t miss prediction: tonight, when President Trump gives his first State of the Union address, he will describe the state of the union as “strong.” (I’ve made this prediction on this blog the past several years, so I’m hoping for a quadfecta of prescience tonight.) Admittedly, predicting that the state of our union will be described as “strong” is about as safe a bet as you can make when it comes to politics. Continue Reading...

What is moral hazard?

Note: This is post #66 in a weekly video series on basic microeconomics. Imagine you take your car in to the shop for routine service and the mechanic says you need a number of repairs. Continue Reading...

PowerLinks 01.30.18

What Causes Poverty? An Interview with Charles Murray, AEI It’s an age-old debate between the left and the right. The left says poverty—inner-city poverty and working-class poverty—is mostly about economics. The right says culture has at least as much to do with it. Continue Reading...
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The greatest foe of poverty

Winston Churchill once said, “Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.” Do young Americans, asks Chris Horst, believe entrepreneurship is a target, cow, or horse? Continue Reading...

Preventing the next Carillion: Philip Booth

The UK has been transfixed by the collapse of Carillion, a construction company which, at the time of its collapse, employed 43,000 employees (20,000 in the UK) and was contracted to carry out 450 projects for the UK government. Continue Reading...

PowerLinks 01.29.18

Davos is Crony Capitalism on Steroids Ross Marchand, The American Conservative “Where the elite, meet”—and reaffirm their mutual interests on either side of the revolving door. Economic Issues Decline Among Public’s Policy Priorities Pew Research Environment, transportation, addiction rise on public’s agenda. Continue Reading...
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