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Sarbanes-Oxley: Secret Costs?

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Senior Fellow Tom Borelli and his Free Enterprise Action Fund partner Steve Milloy ask an important question: "What if someone threw a Sarbanes-Oxley reform party and no one from Wall Street showed up?" It's not an idle question. Tom and ...
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Doesn’t It Really Depend on Whether You are Buying or Selling?

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If the price of gas goes down, the media treats it as a good thing. When the price of housing goes down, the media treats it as a bad thing. But if a $3 gallon of gas is unaffordable, what ...
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Where’s Peter Beinart?

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As you may recall from this blog post, I took Peter Beinart of The New Republic to task for usingmisleading budget numbers from this report by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). I emailed Beinart about this and, ...
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Huffington Post Beware: A Little Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing, Part II

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David Hogberg continues his newest two-part series on health care, begun yesterday: Here are some other problems with Blake Fleetwood's two blog posts (here and here), in no particular order. What Is Single Payer? Fleetwood writes: The facts are clear: ...
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Huffington Post Beware: A Little Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing, Part I

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David Hogberg says: Over at the Huffington Post, journalist Blake Fleetwood claims "Poor Little Greece Has Better Health Care than the U.S." In that blog post, he links to another of his posts, titled "Cuba Has Better Medical Care Than ...
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Congratulations to Peyton Knight

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Congratulations to Peyton Knight, the National Center's director of environmental and regulatory affairs, for being awarded the Property Rights Foundation of America Tenth Annual Property Rights Advocate Award on October 14 in New York. Peyton received this award for his ...
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U.S. Health System Beats Others

David Hogberg has a letter in the Detroit News taking issue with an earlier Detroit News article by Ron French that appeared to be, in my opinion at least, a bit unfair to the doctors, nurses and other health care ...
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“A Poster Child for the Special Treatment of Illegal Aliens”

Mychal Massie has strong thoughts about the deportation case of Elvira Arellano ...
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True Blue Mutual Fund IDs “Progressive” Companies

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Can a mutual fund have a political persuasion? Apparently so. Senior Fellow Tom Borelli (who also happens to be affiliated with a pro-freedom mutual fund, the Free Enterprise Action Fund) has shared with me a new development in the mutal ...
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Censoring Climate Change, the Stormtrooper Way

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The staffer at Grist magazine has retracted his statement that those of us unconvinced of the wisdom of the full range of policy prescriptions argued for by Al Gore et al on climate should be subjected to Nuremberg-style trials. I ...
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