The Unbroken Window

On Wednesday, August 23rd Congress ordered a hold in Medicare reimbursements to hospitals, doctors and a host of other providers for the last nine days of the current budget year. The government is doing this so that it can delay $5.2 billion in Medicare expenses from hitting this year’s budget and move them to next […]

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Although economists of all stripes agree that the net economic impact of massive immigration of low skilled workers into the United States is positive, large, and widely dispersed, Americans seem to be as strong in their opposition to the practice today as they were a century earlier. However, just as at the turn of the […]

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On August 7th , British Petroleum, the world’s 2nd largest oil company discovered corrosion in the pipelines at its Prudhoe Bay oil field - prompting it to shut down and repair 16 miles of pipeline. The shutdown is expected to disrupt oil supplies to the United States by as much as 400,000 barrels per day […]

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