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April 24, 2024  •  Weekly Newsletter
Apple and Lina Khan’s Antitrust Antics

Richard McKenzie (The Beacon)

What do you think? Has Samsung been pressing FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan to take on her Apple antitrust case? Bet on it. But she should remember the Microsoft case of the mid-1990s—and desist. READ MORE »

Hunting the Big Five

Twenty-First Century Antitrust
in Historical Perspective

The Independent Review, Winter 2018/19

The IRS Lied

Brady Leonard (Catalyst)

Remember, “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor”? Well, the IRS has just been caught red-handed using the vast majority of it new funds to target—you guessed it—not wealthy but middle-class Americans. Does government ever change? READ MORE »

IRS Targeting

As Predictable as Politics

By Bruce Yandle

The Latest Plan to Exacerbate California’s Housing Crisis

Lawrence J. McQuillan (Wall Street Journal)

Progressive California politicians say they want to restrict corporate investment in the single-family rental market because they think doing so would help everyday renters and home buyers. Wrong. They actually need more such investment, not less. READ MORE »

Housing America

Building Out of a Crisis

Edited by Randall G. Holcombe, Benjamin Powell

Obamacare, Student Loans, and the End of Empire

Mary L. G. Theroux (The Beacon)

With U.S. debt totaling a staggering $35 trillion, Biden now offers America an even braver new world. Grateful college graduates will now ensure his rule in the Imperial City as payback for his saddling the US taxpayer with their loan payments. Time to shackle the emperor with our founding documents! READ MORE »
LISTEN: Don’t Forgive Student Loans

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The Oakland A’s Stadium Shenanigans

Craig Eyermann

DEA and FDA Duke it Out Over Marijuana Scheduling

Raymond J. March

Canada’s Healthcare System Can’t Keep Track of Patients and Is Vulnerable to Cyberattacks

K. Lloyd Billingsley

The Latest from Catalyst

Anti-Hunting Laws Have Deadly Consequences

Brady Leonard

The Federal Phase-Out of Gasoline Cars Has Begun

Jon Miltimore

What’s the Difference between Finance, Accounting, and Economics?

Patrick Carroll

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