At the time of peak lockdown, nearly 94 percent of the U.S. population was placed under stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of Covid-19. Currently, every state is working toward ending, or already has ended, their stay-at-home measures. Lifting the lockdown has provided many benefits. Foremost, the U.S. economy climbed out of a severe...
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Tag: special interests
Raymond J. March | Monday June 15, 2020 at 10:50 AM PDT
Randall G. Holcombe | Friday August 3, 2018 at 10:51 AM PDT
The real threat to free markets lies in the regulatory state.
Raymond J. March | Wednesday December 13, 2017 at 10:04 AM PST
On November 13, 2017, millions of Americans had high blood pressure for the first time. It wasn’t even Thanksgiving.
Robert Higgs | Wednesday July 19, 2017 at 4:37 PM PDT
Public choice analysis shows, among many other things, that organized political interests will tend to dominate the political process at the expense of the unorganized members of society. This is not a claim that “the rich” will necessarily dominate “the poor” in the political process, although the rich obviously have an advantage in influencing...
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