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June 15, 2018

A Samson Option for Ireland’s Catholic hospitals?

National funding of health care has produced a fresh crisis in Europe. Not merely the never-ending “winter crisis” in the NHS each year, but a crisis of conscience for Catholic health care providers. Continue Reading...

June 15, 2018

The shrinking of the administrative state

In just the last year, the regulatory apparatus of the federal government has endured a range of healthy threats and corrections. Approximately 1,579 regulatory actions have been withdrawn or delayed, according to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and that wave is set to continue. Continue Reading...

June 14, 2018

Daniel Hannan explains why the EU is a hive of corruption

Two paths confront someone faced with an unwanted reality: reform or denial. With a report set to expose persistently high levels of corruption among its member states, the EU chose the latter option, its critics say. Continue Reading...

June 14, 2018

If work is our ‘modern religion,’ leisure is not the cure

Americans are known for working longer hours and taking less vacation time than their counterparts in the industrialized world. In response, many are quick to decry this fact as evidence of age-old desperation and newfound decadence. Continue Reading...

June 14, 2018

How a virtual central bank may have created the Bitcoin bubble

Imagine if you could own a company that had the ability to print money—literally to create the equivalent of U.S. dollars out of thin air. Here’s how it could work: The company prints it own form of currency and sends it to another firm where the newly created pseudo-money is used to purchase assets. Continue Reading...

June 13, 2018

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A Samson Option for Ireland’s Catholic hospitals?

The shrinking of the administrative state

Daniel Hannan explains why the EU is a hive of corruption

If work is our ‘modern religion,’ leisure is not the cure

How a virtual central bank may have created the Bitcoin bubble

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