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HOW EXPANDING SOCIAL SERVICES WON'T FIX HEALTH CARE COSTS & FIXING AMERICA'S FINANCIAL CRISIS

5/24/2019

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Four Lessons from the Latest Medicare Trustees’ Report
Charles Blahous, E21

My last article reviewed key lessons from the Social Security trustees’ annual report on that program’s financial status. This article presents four key lessons of the trustees’ companion report on the Medicare program. It is possible it is mere happenstance that the dismissal of the public trustee watchdogs from the process has coincided with the proliferation of proposals to expand both Social Security and Medicare far beyond what fiscal realism would allow. Nevertheless, the public policy discussion would benefit enormously from confirming public trustees to represent the bipartisan analytical consensus regarding Medicare (and Social Security) finances. Read more here....
Correlation Without Causation
Chris Pope, City Journal
America Off Balance: Finding A Solution To America's Financial Crisis
via The Hoover Centennial
America Off Balance allows visitors to explore the current federal debt crisis and the complex reforms necessary to fix it.
Four Lessons from the Latest Social Security Trustees’ Report
Charles Blahous, E21
The Social Security trustees issued their annual report on the program’s financial condition earlier this year, along with their companion report on Medicare. As in previous years, these reports contain sobering news that lawmakers and the public need to know. The trustees who authored these reports are Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, and then-acting Social Security Commissioner Nancy Berryhill. Two other trustee positions, those of the independent, bipartisan public trustees, have remained vacant since Robert Reischauer and I last served in those capacities in 2015. This article summarizes four key lessons of the Social Security report. Read more here....
Hidden Debt, Hidden Deficits: The 2019 Update
via Hoover Daily Report
With the first publication of Hoover Senior Fellow Joshua Rauh’s essay Hidden Debt, Hidden Deficits two years ago, there was finally a comprehensive look into the burden that state and local government pension promises to public employees are placing on public finances. Now, two years later, Rauh has revisited these fundamentally important questions regarding state and local pensions with a major data update and web resource that highlights the fiscal drag of unfunded pension obligations on state and local government finances. 
The Most Important Health Reform Of All
mentioning John H. Cochrane via Forbes
Of all the things we might do to improve our health care system, the one reform that is more important than any other is almost never discussed. It is ignored by Republicans. By Democrats. By the experts. By the think tanks. And by just about everybody who has an opinion on health policy.
Solutions Initiative 2019: American Enterprise Institute
Alan D. Viard | Peter G. Peterson Foundation 
 
In this video, Alan Viard explains how a fiscal policy proposal put forth by five AEI scholars would ensure long-run fiscal stability and maintain economic growth by slowing the growth of health care spending, simplifying the benefit formula for Social Security and encouraging saving to make the system more sustainable, and lowering tax rates while growing the base. 
 
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WHY DID O'ROURKE, HARRIS IMPLODE & HOW BEST TO BRIDGE THE CULTURE DIVIDE THAT DOMINATES AMERICA

5/16/2019

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Socialism Destroys the Human Character
Theodore Dalrymple, National Review
Bridging The Religious-Secular Divide
by Peter Berkowitz via Real Clear Politics
Of the many causes of political polarization in the United States, the conflict between religion and secularism is the oldest and deepest. Easing this conflict — desirable for its own sake — stands a chance of also tempering the increasingly entrenched enmity in our politics between right and left.
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JUSTICE FOR CONRAD BLACK FINALLY

5/16/2019

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Justice for Conrad Black
Editorial of The New York Sun | May 16, 2019
https://www.nysun.com/editorials/justice-for-conrad-black/90687/
When Conrad Black stood before a federal judge in Chicago to hear his final prison sentence, all that was left of the fraud case against him was a single count. He was given a chance to make a statement. "I never ask for mercy," he told the judge, "but I do ask for avoidance of injustice." It was a sad thing for our country and for newspaperdom, we wrote at the time, that his request was denied.
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​The President of the United States called. I was being pardoned, at last
by Conrad Black
National Post
May 15, 2019

http://www.conradmblack.com/1478/the-president-of-the-united-states-called-i-was
        

Black on Black: 'A Confluence of Unlucky Events'
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun | May 16, 2019
https://www.nysun.com/national/black-on-black-a-confluence-of-unlucky-events/90689/
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SPENDTHRIFT STATE BUDGETS & VIEWING STATES A LABOR MARKETS

5/7/2019

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STEVEN MALANGA
Trumped-Up Budgets
A robust economy has been a boon for many states, but some still need to rein in spending.
  
NOLAN GRAY
Cities As Labor Markets
In his brilliant new book, Alain Bertaud offers a new vision for urban planners.
  
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HOW THE TRUMP ECONOMY IS WINNING

5/4/2019

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The Economy and Fed Policy Find the Sweet Spot
Peter Ireland, E21

The U.S. economy has regained momentum after a spell of financial-market volatility sparked fears of a slowdown or even a recession late last year. Real GDP grew at a 3.2% annual rate in the first quarter of 2019, surprising many analysts who expected a much weaker report. The unemployment rate, at 3.6%, stands at its lowest level in nearly 50 years. And while inflation continues to fall below the Federal Reserve’s long-run 2% target, Fed Chair Jerome Powell emphasized at his May 1 press conference that he sees the latest price data as reflecting a variety of special factors, which he expects to be transient, rather than a sign that monetary policy has become overly restrictive.
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FINALLY, AN ATTORNEY GENERAL WITH BALLS

5/3/2019

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