America Can’t Fix Its Doctor Shortage without Fixing Federal Financing
A convoluted federal-funding system for graduate medical education has led to a shortage of physicians in the U.S.
Energy, Climate Policy, and Inflation
The week of October 11: a grim cocktail (an energy crunch, inflation, and a supply-chain mess) and much, much more.
Boring Regulation Fixes Are the Way Out of the Supply-Chain Crisis
The problems we currently face cannot be eliminated by spending a bunch of money or ordering people to act differently.
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The U.S. Can Help Venezuelans Escape Hyperinflation
The Biden administration should make it easier for Venezuelans to open U.S. bank accounts and access dollars.
The Zillow Tax
The latest Biden proposal: an income tax on income that doesn’t actually exist.
Biden’s Capital-Gains Tax Grab Would Wreak Havoc
This is among the most wrongheaded, poorly designed tax proposals in recent memory.
If You’re Looking for a Good Primer on Why Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains Is a Bad Idea . . .
After Janet Yellen’s comments this weekend….
The Blue-Collar Boom
In the rush to usher in the ‘future of work,’ we prematurely signed blue-collar America’s death certificate. Now we’re reckoning with the cost of our mistake.
Biden’s Regulators Leave the Future of Mergers and Acquisitions Uncertain
Regulators are turning the 40-year-old merger-review process into a guessing game.
Can I Speak to a Manager?
The American Innovation and Choice Online Act doesn’t live up to its name.
Americans Should Be More Upset about Infrastructure Inefficiency
Our gross infrastructure inefficiency is a sign of national decline, and if Americans continue to be complacent about it, it will not be reversed.
Fear the Economic ‘End of Men’
Yes, we should be worried about the economic decline of America’s men — and to say otherwise is to ignore the facts.
Why Not Just Put Freight on Planes?
Air freight will never be a replacement for ocean freight, though, and it’s not feasible to just use more planes and solve the shipping crisis.
Episode 40: Globalism, China, and the Sandwich Shop in Brooklyn
David is joined this week by National Review regular, Michael Brendan Dougherty, for a diverse conversation on politics, culture and more.
Inflation Is Here: What’s Next?
Now that inflation is here, it won’t be long before interest rates take their cue and jolt their way higher.
In Defense of ‘I, Pencil’
A response to The American Conservative: We should appreciate the complex networks allowing for pencil production and countless other goods.
Democrats Walk Back IRS Reporting Rule
They have raised the threshold from $600 to $10,000 and added new exemptions for wage deposits and payments under federal programs.
The Dems’ Mess of a Child-Care Plan
Some technical aspects of the Democrats’ child-care proposal would be disastrous.