Bruce Yandle
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Million-Dollar Trips, Easter Eggs, and Fiscal Sanity
MARCH 25, 2013 by BRUCE YANDLE
The sky-high price tag for the vice president's recent trip is only a symptom of the real issue: spending habits that keep federal outlays climbing, year after year.
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The Deficit and the White House Tour Blues
Trivializing the United States's fiscal problems only makes it more likely that they'll have to get a lot worse before they get any better.
MARCH 15, 2013 by BRUCE YANDLE
Trivializing the United States's fiscal problems only makes it more likely that they'll have to get a lot worse before they get any better.
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Minimum Wages: Equal Opportunity or Barrier to Entry?
FEBRUARY 20, 2013 by BRUCE YANDLE
Raising the minimum wage is an attempt to repeat the same old command-and-control approach to increasing prosperity. To truly help people, government needs to remove barriers to hiring people.
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Rahm’s Rule of Crisis Management: A Footnote to the Theory of Regulation
FEBRUARY 11, 2013 by BRUCE YANDLE
Rahm's Rule gives a whole new meaning to the term "crisis management." It also helps us understand how opportunistic politicians can both establish and respond to crisis-based circumstances--ensuring that pork gets delivered to favored constituents while everyone else is distracted by the looming crisis. The rule forms a footnote to theories that help us understand the regulatory state
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The Tilting Point: “Robbing Peter to Pay Paul”
JANUARY 16, 2013 by BRUCE YANDLE
The U.S. economy is quickly approaching the point where there are more tax spenders than taxpayers, helping to produce a divided country.
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"We Want to be Regulated"
Bootleggers, Baptists and Climate Change
OCTOBER 05, 2009 by BRUCE YANDLE
Industry support of legislation that imposes restrictions on output is commonplace, but one begins to understand this more fully after careful scrutiny of the lobbying process.
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Cash for Clunkers is a Loser
AUGUST 27, 2009 by BRUCE YANDLE
Since Cash-for-Clunkers is now officially out of commission, Bruce Yandle reexamines the life and death of the failed government program.
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The Myth of Unregulated Tobacco
JUNE 22, 2009 by BRUCE YANDLE
On Monday, June 22, with apparent satisfaction, President Obama signed the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA), a law that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority over tobacco products. The law requires the FDA ...
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