THE MYTH OF INCOME INEQUALITY & A LOOK AT U.S. HEALTH-CARE

We Will Regret Our Missed Opportunities to Reform Social Security
Andrew G. Biggs | National Review
More modest fixes to Social Security in the past would have brought the program to solvency. Now extreme, uncomfortable action is a virtual certainty.

MI’s Chris Pope provides insight into the country’s five co-operating healthcare systems. Steps to aligning these systems, such as breaking down barriers between individual- and employer-sponsored coverage, would empower consumers while managing costs.

Iran Deepens Its Presence Inside Latin America

The War for Eight Billion Minds

Are income stagnation and inequality serious threats to economic prosperity in the US? Michael R. Strain debunks this popular myth and explains how recent data prove wages and incomes have grown over the past several decades. ​

Desmond Lachman warns that although an economic slowdown in China may lower the United States’ inflation rate, there’s a good chance that it will also push the global economy toward a serious economic recession.

James Pethokoukis considers potential trends for worldwide economic growth and what the United States must do to keep up as the tricentennial of American independence approaches.

 Lachman explains why the Biden administration’s irresponsible fiscal policy, paired with a few monetary policy missteps by the Federal Reserve, has gotten the US economy into deep trouble.

Implementing Competitive Bidding in the Medicare Program: An Expressway to Solvency

Price Transparency 2.0: Helping Patients Identify and Select Providers of High-Value Medical Services

In a new AEI Economic Perspectives report, James C. Capretta and David N. Bernstein envision how policymakers can translate "bipartisan support for transparent health care prices into savings for patients and taxpayers." Capretta and Bernstein argue that recent federal price transparency rules need further reform to support consumer choice in the health care market. They outline a number of possible reforms, including universal access to posted prices and standardizing bundles of health care services. "Patients can become the driving force behind less expensive medical care," the coauthors conclude, "if the market is structured to allow them to easily identify low-cost and high-quality care based on credible pricing and outcome data."

How Do Rising US Interest Rates Affect Emerging and Developing Economies?

Joe Biden and the Fed Have Completely Ruined the US Economy

Star Power: What the Stunning Nuclear-Fusion Breakthrough Really Means
James Pethokoukis | Faster, Please!

Labor’s Lost
In America today, we have informal labor cartels for the college-educated elite, while private sector unions for the working class are all but annihilated
BY MICHAEL LIND