Archive of Old Links

June 2025

New Montana Law Blocks the State From Buying Private Data To Skirt the Fourth Amendment	Reason
High US health care spending is quite well explained by its high material standard of living	Random Critical Analysis
How do you ask good questions	Marginal Revolution
Regulatory quality is declining	Mercatus Center

Computational Analysis of US Congressional Speeches Reveals A Shift from Evidence to Intuition	Nature
Eisenhower Warned Us About the Scientific Elite	Reason
Why We Cannot Have Nice Things	EconLib
How Liberty Upsets Patterns	EconLib
Reflection after Five Papers about Climate Change	Econ Journal Watch

Don't let the next crisis grow the government—again	CEI
Argentina's DOGE	Marginal Revolution
A Win-Win Proposal to Fix Social Security	EconLog
Reconciling the Official Poverty Measure and CBO’s Distributional Analysis of Household Income	CBO
Thanks to De Minimis Exemption, Forever 21 Won't Be Last Bankruptcy	RealClearMarkets
The 3 Myths Supporting NIH Funding	Reason
Another Wrong Way to Measure Poverty	WSJ
The Census Defines the Poverty Rate Up	WSJ
What Happened To Never-Needed Regulations	CEI
Donald Trump Deregulates Showerheads...Again	Reason
The Coming Bloodbath at the Department of Energy	Heatmap
Postal Reforms Abroad	CATO
California Finally Abandons Facets of Flawed Social-Media Mandate	AEI
Biden's leftover regulations will decide your next light bulb unless Trump stops them	CEI
Postal Service Metrics	Cato
The Doctor will See Your Electronic Health Record Now	IEEE Spectrum
International Trade: Commerce Among Nations	IMF
The Trump Administration Should Focus on Deregulation, Not Tariffs	Reason
Most Externalities are Solved with Technology, Not Coordination	Maximum Progress
Strategic Deregulation to Spur Economic Growth	Law & Liberty
How the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is like the human appendix	Washington Post
Jail Time for Cheap Rides?	Reason
Denmark postal service to stop delivering letters	BBC

How Large Would SNAP Be? Simulating the Size of SNAP Based on Changes to the Unemployment Rate	AEI
Cutting School Food Subsidies	CATO
The Doctor Will See Your Electronic Health Record Now	IEEE Spectrum
Top 5 Reasons to End the US Department of Education	CATO
Hawley’s bill speeds up union elections by removing guardrails	CEI
Biden's Record-Breaking Regulatory Run	Reason
A Skeptical View of the National Science Foundation’s Role in Economic Research	Journal of Economic Perspectives
Social Security: Flawed from the Start and Ponzi versus Stocks	Econlib
Scoring CBO’s Scores: Ten of the Worst CBO Blunders of the 21st Century So Far	Foundation for Government Accountability
Prices are signals (and politicians keep shooting the messenger)	Economic Forces
You want hiring freezes with that? The effects of California’s minimum wage increase	CEI
Leave Child Tax Credit Expansion to the States	CATO
The IRA Has Made a Little Climate Bang for a Lot of Taxpayer Bucks	CATO
Modernizing the EPA: A Blueprint for Congress	CEI
The Media Love Negative Trends, but America Keeps Moving in the Right Direction	Reason
Biden Bails Out the Teamsters	Wall Street Journal
DeSantis Derangement Syndrome Is Getting Stronger by the Day	National Review
The ‘Twitter Files’ Miss the Real Scandal: FBI Interference in the 2020 Election	National Review