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3 days ago by Gary Gross

Steve Findlay’s op-ed in Tuesday’s USA Today contains a fatal flaw in it. Let’s see if you spot it: Socialized medicine. Government-run health care. Rationing. Bureaucrats in charge. “Cookbook” medicine. Waiting lines. It’ll break the bank. Welcome to the health care debate 2009. Sound familiar? The ...

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3 days ago by justbkuz

do it yourself. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin takes to the grocery aisles. From the Foundry, Russia Market Economy Short Lived? The past week saw an extraordinary event in the Russian economy. Prime Minister Putin and other Cabinet Ministers made a surprise visit to one of Moscow’s supermark ...

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5 days ago by Gary Gross

Last Friday, I did a breakfast interview with Dave Borgert. Dave is the director of Government Relations at CentraCare Health System here in St. Cloud. For over 90 minutes, Dave fielded my questions and King’s questions. The wealth of information I gained from this interview left me overwhelmed. Pro ...

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5 days ago by vituperative01

Price controls have been suggested as a solution to a myriad of problems in economic policy. Sadly there isn't much evidence that they've ever achieved their goals.

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5 days ago by Gary Gross

When you strip away all the peripheral stuff, health care reform comes down to choosing what our priorities are. Would we put a higher priority on good accessability and great quality in health care or do we prefer a system that features universal coverage and price controls. We know that President ...

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7 days ago by Harris R. Sherline

“Pulling immigrants out of the equation, we’re left with an uninsured population that can’t afford insurance that is about a third the size of the widely quoted 47 million."

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10 days ago by Stephen Monrad

Price controls must obey the following rule: The price of a product needs to be greater than or equal to the cost of the producing it. If the rule is broken, businesses that make the product will fail because their expenses will exceed their revenues. The mechanics of how businesses convert inputs i ...

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12 days ago by Stephen Monrad

If I have a bag of apples and you have a bag of oranges, there might be something to gain by trading fruit if we both prefer variety. The gains, though, won’t be that great. An apple and an orange are functionally similar. They are both healthy foods that taste good. If the trade doesn’t happen, no ...

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14 days ago by Gary Gross

I just finished interviewing Rep. Charles Boustany, (R-LA), on the subject of health care in general and the ‘private option’ provisions. Let’s start with a little bit of background on Rep. Boustany. Before he became Rep. Boustany, he was Dr. Boustany. Rep. Boustany was a practicing physician for ov ...

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15 days ago by Stephen Monrad

If inflation spirals up when a market economy gets close to full employment, the only way to run an economy at full employment, I believe, is to control price increases somehow. Now, most economists believe price controls are bad because they break the price mechanism that is supposed to bring suppl ...

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