JDA Monthly Manifesto Archive

INSIGHTS: MONEY INTERESTS EVERYONE, SO WILL IN MONEY WE TRUST Guest Columnists: Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media and author, including the recently released book In Money We Trust. A ruler is always 12 inches long, a pound always weighs 16 ounces. So then why does the va … [Read more...]

INSIGHTS: MAKE COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS MEANINGFUL Guest Columnists: James Broughel, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University  Reprinted with permission from The Regulatory Review. In 1947, economist Tjalling Koopmans wrote a review of the book Measuring Business Cycles … [Read more...]

INSIGHTS: INCREASED E-CIGARETTE REGULATION INCREASES BARRIERS TO HEALTH Guest Columnist: Carrie Wade, Senior Fellow and harm reduction policy director, R Street Institute. Reprinted with permission The Food and Drug Administration has spoken, and its words have, once again, ruffled many … [Read more...]

INSIGHTS: GOVERNMENT WORKS BETTER WHEN DIVIDED Guest Columnists: Steve Hanke, professor of applied economics at John Hopkins University and senior fellow at the CATO Institute. Reprinted with permission. The results of the U.S. mid-term elections were good news for not only the winners, but for m … [Read more...]

INSIGHTS: FEWER REGULATIONS, MORE ENERGY, LOWER EMISSIONS Guest Columnist: Marlo Lewis, Jr., Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute The Trump administration had cheery news to report this week about deregulation, U.S. energy production, and greenhouse gas emissions. The Department of … [Read more...]