Authored by Richard Kocur via The Mises Institute,
Recently, Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled a single-payer healthcare plan called “Medicare for All.”
Sanders titled his approach for nationalizing one-sixth of the American economy as “Medicare for All” in order to offer a template for his vision of the U.S. healthcare system.
Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,
Do the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page editors read their own newspaper?
The frontpage headline story for the Labor Day weekend was “Low Wage Growth Challenges Fed.” Despite an alleged 4.4% unemployment rate, which is full employment, there is no real growth in wages. The front page story pointed out correctly that an economy alleged to be expanding at full employment, but absent any wage growth or inflation, is “a puzzle that complicates Federal Reserve policy decisions.”
In his September 2017 paper entitled 'Where Have All the Workers Gone? An Inquiry into the Decline of the U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate', Alan B. Krueger of Princeton University explores the dramatic fall in labor force participation in the U.S. from 1997 to 2017.
Two days after the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center announced that the White House’s tax reform plan would raise taxes on about 12% of taxpayers, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin took to the Sunday talk shows to defend the Trump tax plan, which was unveiled Wednesday in a nine-page document.
Content originally published at iBankCoin.com
A snarky elitist librarian from Cambridge, Mass. responded to First Lady Melania Trump’s gift of Dr. Seuss books with a condescending screed about how Dr. Seuss is racist – recommending Mrs. Trump should instead gift the (racist) books to underprivileged children.