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Yet Another Podcast Twin Spin

==> In Episode 78 of Contra Krugman, we talk about Krugman railing against the anti-reality Republicans. I am swamped with work so I have to be brief in my outline: 6:00 I remind people that it was progressive Democrats who started using the phrase “fake news” as a political weapon. 8:25 Tom explains that he […]

More on the Tax on “Cadillac” Health Insurance Plans

In response to my earlier post on Scott Sumner and Steve Landsburg, David R. Henderson sent me two of his own posts (I and II) on the 40% surtax on so-called Cadillac employer-provided health plans. I think I’m generally in agreement with everything David wrote, but I suspect he is still more favorable to the […]

Free-Market Economists for Massive Tax Hikes

You know how it’s impossible to buy an airplane ticket, unless your company pays for it? The reason is that businesses can deduct air travel as an expense. You know how it’s impossible to go out to dinner, unless your company pays for it? The reason is that businesses can deduct meals as an expense. […]

Obama: Health Insurance Premiums Could Fall By 3000 Percent

This happened years ago, but I missed it. Now this video is making the rounds for obvious reasons: So it’s funny that critics are calling this a “lie,” when it’s so much more than that. (I googled and apparently the White House said afterwards that Obama had misspoken, and meant to claim a $3,000 reduction […]

Contra Krugman Episode 11

Tom and I take on Krugman’s absurd spinning of the horrible ObamaCare news that has come out this month.

Old Obama Footage on Paving the Way to Single Payer

A lot of people–even prominent libertarian economists–have told me they think I’m paranoid for believing that at least some of the architects of the Affordable Care Act knew full well it would lead to a single payer system. (One of their arguments is that the federal government can’t do anything right, how could they pull […]

ObamaCare’s Not Got a Lot to Be Thankful For This Year

That post title may not be fully grammatical… Anyway I had to do a bunch of this research in preparation for this week’s Contra Krugman (not released yet), so I wrote an op ed that was placed in the Daily Caller. Makes for great Thanksgiving Day conversation. And remember, if you want the definitive explanation […]

Potpourri

Sorry for the scant blogging, but I’m in the middle of a move to Texas. In six months, when you see the prodigious output of academic journal articles, you will thank me. (Or not.) Anyway: ==> I have a new Cato working paper on carbon taxes. I co-authored it with climate scientists Pat Michaels and […]