✏️Inspiring, educating & connecting future leaders with the principles of a free society. | Est. 1946
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People keep calling U.S. healthcare a "free market failure." The truth is, it hasn't been a free market in 70 years.
Here’s how decades of central planning created a $5.3T crisis: 👇
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Americans are angry about affordability, and policymakers face mounting pressure to “do something."
Cato’s “Handbook on Affordability” offers 100+ practical policy ideas to improve monetary and fiscal policy — and lower prices by opening up supply and competition in food, energy, housing, healthcare, and more.
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“One acquires proficiency in the art of economic thinking largely by learning to recognize the ingenious ways in which market participants overcome obstacles to mutually advantageous exchanges.”
- Paul Heyne 🧠
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Famine, misery, and millions of deaths. A system that shatters dreams, families, and hope.
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“The solution to our problems is not more paternalism, laws, decrees, or controls, but the restoration of liberty and free enterprise.”
- Henry Hazlitt
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This autumn at The Freeman: the Greek economy, Karl Popper, and life in a newly socialist New York:
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“The whole of civilized society is based on the principle that people should be allowed to do what they like until good reason is shown to the contrary.”
- Edwin Cannan 👀
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This year, the top 10 students from our Americas Challenge traveled to Olympia, Greece, the birthplace of the Olympics, for the International Final Round. They went head-to-head with nearly 150 of the world's top economics students in exams on microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance, and public policy.
And they delivered:
🏆 7 of 10 finished as medalists in the global top 50
🏅 2 ranked in the top 10 in the WORLD
We asked them what the experience meant to them.
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When people have greater incentives to produce, innovate, and start businesses, the economy has more room to grow.
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"Britain’s political class loves to talk about “reforming welfare,” but everyone knows the limits of that ambition. Voter Welfare—the £333.7 billion the state is forecast to transfer from taxpayers to households in 2025–26—is politically untouchable. A population brought up on free cake is unlikely to vote for the plate being removed, at least until it stares a debt tragedy square in the face.
But there is another kind of welfare that receives far less attention and may actually be fixable: Rent-Seeking Welfare, or what is more bluntly called corporate welfare elsewhere."
- Alan Hibben
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You cannot reform what you cannot measure. fee.org/articles/corporate-w…
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“A mere jumble of beliefs and facts is not theory or hypothesis-testing. It is possible to select – in retrospect – facts consistent with almost any belief.”
- Thomas Sowell
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