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Veronique de Rugy

Politics trump policy once again in budget debate
03/14/2019 - 8:41pm
Veronique de Rugy
FEDERAL BUDGET: March 14, 2019 The Trump administration just delivered a massive budget to Congress. A look at the numbers and the talking points drafted to defend it confirms that budgets favor politics over policy. This also confirms that it really doesn’t matter who is in the White House. Big spenders will spend and then dissemble to cover up their fiscal irresponsibility. THE FISCAL...
Statewide rent-control laws cannot escape the law of supply and demand
Veronique de Rugy 03/08/2019 - 4:21pm
RENT CONTROL: March 7, 2019 Last week, Oregon became the first state in the nation to adopt a mandatory statewide rent-control policy. Yet, rent control never delivers on the promise that it will multiply the affordable housing in high-value markets to serve middle- and lower-class families. It also always has negative consequences, and this time...
Learning the lessons of protectionism the hard way
Veronique de Rugy 03/03/2019 - 11:37pm
PROTECTIONISM: February 28, 2019 Protectionism begets protectionism. The latest example of this sad state of affairs comes to us via the U.S. International Trade Commission. It ruled in January that American producers of line pipe are being hurt by imports of large-diameter line pipe from China and India, among other places. The remedy will likely...
Is your car a threat to national security?
Veronique de Rugy 02/21/2019 - 1:10pm
TRADE RESTRICTIONS: February 21, 2019 If you drive an imported car, as I do, your vehicle may soon be declared a national security risk by the Department of Commerce. If you drive an American-assembled car, your car may also pose a threat to U.S. national security because it inevitably contains some foreign parts — which Commerce could...
Innovative treatments may require equally innovative health care payment models
Veronique de Rugy 02/17/2019 - 7:15pm
HEALTH CARE: February 14, 2019 What Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare-for-all,” former President Obama’s Affordable Care Act and former House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Medicare “premium support” model all have in common is an overemphasis on health insurance coverage — who needs it, who is eligible for it, at...
PURPA and why central planning fails
Veronique de Rugy 02/07/2019 - 8:20pm
CENTRAL PLANNING: February 7, 2019 In F.A. Hayek’s 1988 book, “The Fatal Conceit,” the economist explained, “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” Unfortunately, politicians of both parties today imagine they can design quite a lot...
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