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An encounter on the campaign trail. Was it a dead end, or a wasted opportunity?
If social insurance plans had been designed by libertarian-leaning policy mechanics, what might they have produced?
Amity Shlaes concludes in her new book that grand governmental schemes to broadly reorder society are doomed to fail.
In a speech drafted but never delivered in the waning weeks of the 1980 campaign, Reagan was to say: "The overriding question is not one of Left or Right. It is one of reversing the flow of power and control to ever more remote institutions."
We didn't learn the lessons of the last crisis. Does that mean we're doomed to repeat it?
A new book offers some decent ideas for revitalizing the Motor City—but it doesn't go far enough.
Vermont's been using them for years, but the debate goes on.
Raking over the politicians, regulators, brokers, and bankers who caused the financial crisis
Vermont's been using them for years, but the debate goes on.
How a privileged few are preventing average Americans from becoming homeowners
An anti-monopoly, hard-money movement enjoyed a brief moment of glory in the 1830s.
Three new books identify government as the culprit in our serious housing problems but fail utterly to offer appropriate solutions.
...and, as our reviewer discovered, there are just a few.
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