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Redistribution Doesn’t Bring Prosperity

Mona Charen writes in The National Review, The Abandoned Poor: Now, how is the class to whom the president so frequently panders doing? Jeffrey Anderson of The Weekly Standard looked at Census Bureau data and found that typical American household income has not only...

Policy Without Consequences

David Goldman writes Why Liberals Don’t Care About Consequences in Pajama Media: Excerpt: Why don’t liberals seem to notice the catastrophic consequences of their policies, and why to they imagine imminent horrors where none exist? If you corner a liberal and point to...

The Great Divergence

From Scott Grannis at his blog, Calafia Beach Pundit Taking the measure of the our discontent: Excerpt: If one thing stands out in these charts, it is the abruptness and the severity and the persistence of the divergence from long-term trends that began in 2008....

Piketty’s Questionable Data

From Michael Barone at National Review- Equality at the Expense of Prosperity: But is his picture of current trends complete? The Manhattan Institute’s Scott Winship points out that relying, as Piketty does, on tax returns for the U.S. statistics means omitting income...