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.
Book Review
Why Capitalism?
DECEMBER 17, 2012 by BRUCE YANDLE
A review of Allan Meltzer's Why Capitalism? by Bruce Yandle.
Book Review
The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from New Research on Well-Being
MAY 25, 2011 by BRUCE YANDLE
Article
Producing Jobs: Thoughts on Obama’s Plan for Small Businesses
We need six months of political silence.
FEBRUARY 09, 2010 by BRUCE YANDLE
Too many policy boulders are being dropped in the water. One can hardly determine the effects of one before another one is thrown in the pool.
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