Category: Economics

Michael F. Cannon President Joe Biden has touted how the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) gives Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices. He has boasted that this new authority will save $6 billion in its first year. As I explained at the policy forum, “At What Price: Determining Pharmaceutical Prices in Medicare,” however, the…

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Eric Gomez and Benjamin Giltner There were multiple developments in US security assistance to Taiwan in September 2024, but the size of the arms sale backlog did not change from the previous month. The topline figure for the Taiwan arms sale backlog remains $20.5 billion. New information that came to light in September about several…

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James A. Dorn In her recent article in Business Insider, Linette Lopez, a graduate of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, argues that China’s latest efforts to spur the economy are too little, too late. She holds that Xi Jinping is opposed to massive stimulus programs that would directly stimulate consumption by sending checks to…

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Jennifer J. Schulp and Jack Solowey What do Yankees tickets and Pokémon cards have in common? If you guessed wish list items for elementary school kids, you wouldn’t be wrong. But another thing they share is that Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler has been asked to opine on whether they are securities…

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Dalam dunia pengembangan aplikasi web, keamanan menjadi perhatian utama. Salah satu ancaman keamanan yang sering muncul adalah Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). Serangan XSS dapat berdampak signifikan pada aplikasi web, khususnya pada aplikasi yang dibangun menggunakan Node.js. Pada bagian ini, kita akan menjelajahi apa itu XSS, jenis-jenis serangan, dan bagaimana kerentanan ini dapat memengaruhi aplikasi web yang dikembangkan dengan Node.js. Dengan pemahaman yang mendalam…

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Jeffrey Miron A common critique of marijuana legalization asserts that marijuana use causes mental illness. Numerous studies document a correlation between use and conditions such as psychosis. This evidence, however, does not pin down the degree to which use causes, versus results from, reduced mental health. Indeed, mere correlations are consistent with use, making preexisting mental health…

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New Year’s Eve fireworks above the US Capitol Building, Washington DC. 2016. “Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?” Many in DC seem to think so, especially when it comes to taxpayers. The federal government rang in Fiscal Year 2025 on October 1 like many fiscal years with a last-minute continuing resolution…

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Alex Nowrasteh In the October 1 vice-presidential debate, Senator JD Vance (R‑OH) said, “Look, in Springfield, Ohio and in communities all across this country … you have got housing that is totally unaffordable because we brought in millions of illegal immigrants to compete with Americans for scarce homes.” (Emphasis added.) Vance is correct in saying that…

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act. 1935.  Donald Trump and Joe Biden began the campaign season by staying away from social security reform. Kamala Harris has only promised to strengthen it without providing details. Mr. Trump then proposed a truly bad idea and has refused to back down. That idea is the elimination of…

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Udang tumis brokoli adalah salah satu hidangan yang menggabungkan cita rasa lezat dengan manfaat kesehatan yang melimpah. Perpaduan antara udang yang kaya protein dan brokoli yang penuh serat serta vitamin membuat hidangan ini tidak hanya menggugah selera, tetapi juga menyehatkan. Masakan ini cocok dinikmati sebagai menu makan siang atau makan malam, dan bahkan bisa disajikan…

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