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DEFICITS SCREW THE U.S. LONGTERM & THE END OF BIG STATE LIBERALISM

6/29/2018

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Long-Term Deficits Will Weaken the Economy, Invite Crisis
James Capretta, AEI
US fiscal policy may burst asset bubble 
Desmond Lachman | Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum 
If there is one point on which almost all economists can agree, it is that a country’s trade balance is the difference between its savings and its investment rates. By following policies that increase the budget deficit and reduce the country’s savings rate, Washington is increasing the probability that the US will return to the twin deficit problem of the 1980s. That raises the chances that the administration will intensify its protectionist stance on trade policy when the country’s trade deficit widens.
Don’t Hold Your Breath for Trump to Shrink the Trade Deficit
Desmond Lachman, The Hill

 
The End of Big-State Liberalism
Dominic Green, CapX
Global Aging And Fiscal Solvency
by Martin Feldstein via Project Syndicate
Countries that rely on pay-as-you-go public pension systems are running up against two problems: increasing life expectancy and rising old-age-dependency ratios. How can such systems be sustained without massive tax increases?
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USA = NATURAL GAS POWERHOUSE

6/29/2018

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American Natural Gas Fuels the World’s Future – Rick Perry, Washington Examiner
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In the Age of Trump and Putin, Europe’s Hard Choice on Gas – Naureen Malik & Anna Shiryaevskaya, Bloomberg Quint
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NEW CRITERION COVERS ALEXANDER HAMILTON & JEFFERSON CORRESPONDENCE

6/24/2018

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Alexander Hamilton: precocious and preeminent  by Lewis Lehrman
On Alexander Hamilton, American, by Richard Brookhiser
Friends & founders  by Harvey Mansfield
A review of The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson & James Madison edited by John Morton Smith
From Englishmen to Americans  by Marc M. Arkin
A review of Inheriting the Revolution by Joyce Appleby
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TRUMP'S NATIONALISM BEATS GOLDBERG'S SUICIDE OF THE WEST

6/21/2018

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NY SUN
CONRAD BLACK
Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Drives U.S. Energy & National Security 
By Jim Webb & Jim Nicholson, RealClearEnergy: “America’s strategic position has improved in recent years due to an “all-of-the-above” energy policy. But we remain vulnerable in an expanding global economy marked by ever-growing energy needs and potentially troublesome energy alliances, such as Russia’s recent accord with OPEC, that have the potential to manipulate the flow of oil.”
America Can Ride The 21st Century's Waves Of Change
by George P. Shultz via The Wall Street Journal
The world is experiencing change of unprecedented velocity and scope. Governments everywhere must develop strategies to deal with this emerging new world. They should start by studying the forces of technology and demography that are creating it.
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WAITING ON TRUMP TO DELIVER:  WHERE'S THE WINNING, WSJ DANIEL HENNINGER & THE SUPREMES ON UNION DUES

6/18/2018

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Janus Ruling Challenges Unions to Prove Their Value
Stephen Vukovits, E21

On Wednesday the Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. AFSCME that public-sector union agency fees are a form of compelled speech and therefore violate the First Amendment.  This decision reversed the precedent of Abood v. Detroit Board of Education (1977), which allowed nonmembers to be charged for unions’ collective bargaining efforts. Writing for the Court, Justice Samuel Alito remarked “no reliance interests on the part of public-sector unions are sufficient to justify the perpetuation of the free speech violations that Abood has countenanced for the past 41 years.” Read more here....
The future after Janus
Nat Malkus | American Enterprise Institute 
The United States Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees that agency fees are unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds. Twenty-two states had compelled nonunion teachers to pay agency fees to the union that represented them in contract negotiations. Those agency fees kept teachers union membership, and revenue, high in those states. The consensus is that the Janus ruling will be a major blow to teachers unions. Now, what will happen to teachers unions in a world without agency fees?
Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
Nat Malkus | AEI video 
The Supreme Court's ruling in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) stated that public-sector unions may no longer compel nonmembers to pay agency fees to the union that represents them. Nat Malkus interviews Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, who was one of the people to initiate the case against AFSCME.
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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON:  WHY THE U.S. IS A DIVIDED NATION & MILTON FRIEDMAN ON DRUG POLICY

6/9/2018

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Ten Paradoxes Of Our Age
by Victor Davis Hanson via Defining Ideas
The West is in turmoil because of a bitter divide between the people and the ruling elite.
The US drug war started 47 years ago. Some commentary from Milton Friedman on that failed and shameful war 
Mark J. Perry | AEIdeas 

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SOCIAL SECURITY TRUSTEES SPEAK UP ABOUT INSOLVENCY & VICTOR DAVIS HANSON ON JOHN BATCHELOR

6/7/2018

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Seven Social Security Myths
Charles Blahous, Mercatus
Among public policy issues, Social Security is especially beset by myths and urban legends.  These myths inhibit the enactment of legislation necessary to close its substantial financing shortfall. Press, public and policy makers alike would do well to disabuse themselves of the following widely circulated canards.
This Is How to Save Social Security and Medicare
Brian Riedl, New York Post
All Downhill for Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds
Charles Blahous, E21
The 2018 Social Security and Medicare 
trustees’ reports have been released. For the first time in several years they contain some big (in addition to their usual bad) news: the combined Social Security trust funds and the Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund will begin drawing down their reserves this year, on their respective ways to eventual depletion. In the case of Medicare HI, that depletion is now projected to occur in just eight short years, by 2026. Read more here....
Victor Davis Hanson: Nukes Are Not Forever, Europe Doesn't Work, And Growth Is The Best Policy
interview with Victor Davis Hanson via The John Batchelor Show
The bad news on entitlements piles up
James C. Capretta | Real Clear Policy 
Despite a strong economy, entitlement programs have large and growing financial deficits. Unfortunately, the gap between spending and revenue for these programs is likely even larger than the official projections show because of assumed but unrealistic cuts in medical care payment rates and the persistently low birth rates of recent years. As the bad news on entitlement spending and the fiscal outlook rolls in, the silence of the nation’s political leaders is deafening
Social Security reform, back where we started
Andrew G. Biggs | Forbes 
The Social Security Trustees released their 2018 report on the financial status of the government’s largest program. For the most part, the report showed a holding pattern: no big changes, except that the passage of a year means that we’re one year closer to the Social Security trust funds’ insolvency.

Five Key Facts About Social Security and Medicare
No Labels, Real Clear Policy
Social Security Trust Fund Underscores Need for Reform
Dennis W. Jansen, Thomas R. Saving, E21
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CREATIVE DESTRUCTION OF ROBOTICS IN MANUFACTURING & WHY OIL IS HIGH NOW, THE BOTTLENECK IN U.S. GULF SHALE

6/5/2018

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Robots to the Rescue—of Manufacturing
Industrial-sector jobs won’t disappear anytime soon.
How bad is the US oil bottleneck?
BY ASIA TIMES STAFF
Analysts say capacity issues could delay Permian basin production growth into late 2019
Shale Country Is Out of Workers
David Wethe, Bloomberg
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TRUMP CAN PARDON HIMSELF, THE FEDERALIST PAPERS REVEAL & OVERBLOWN FEAR OF A DEEP STATE

6/4/2018

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TRUMP CAN PARDON HIMSELF
The overblown fear of the ‘deep state’ 
Jonah Goldberg | NationalReview.com
The ‘administrative state’ needs to follow the rule of law by Congress 
Peter J. Wallison | The Hill
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WHY THE U.S. ECONOMY IS GROWING

6/4/2018

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Why the Economy Is Roaring
Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
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    HENRY OLSON: POLITICAL DEMOGRAPHY

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