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Taxes Are Not An Artificial Imposition on Your Rightful Income
Americans' thinking about taxes is confused.
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Conor Smyth

January 2024

Martin Luther King Was the Most Influential Democratic Socialist in American History
King is often remembered as a moderate figure. That's far from the reality.
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Conor Smyth

June 2023

Inflation is WAYYY Down. Yay!
Inflation has been cut in half—and then some—since June of last year.
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Conor Smyth

April 2023

The Key Data for Understanding French Pensions
Projections from an independent advisory panel have for years shown French pension spending to be on a sustainable path
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Conor Smyth

March 2023

Do We Have to Starve Old People?
Emmanuel Macron says, "Oui!"
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Conor Smyth
Voters Want the Fed to Stop Raising Interest Rates—Someone Tell the Media
A new poll shows that 56% of voters oppose further rate hikes. Maybe it's time for the media to stop acting like ordinary Americans support the Fed's…
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Conor Smyth
Eli Lilly Just Admitted It's Been Price Gouging for Years
Its announcement that it will lower prices for insulin reveals a dark reality: the fact that it can cut prices at will is an admission that it's been…
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Conor Smyth

February 2023

Work Stoppages Up 52% Last Year, More Than Any Year Between 1942 and 1980
Though the rate of union membership sits at a historic low, there are serious reasons for optimism about the state of labor in the US. For one, the…
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Conor Smyth
“It’s the Prices, Stupid”: Why US Healthcare Spending is So Damn High
Last week, I made a post about the exceptionalism of the US in terms of both its high level of healthcare spending and its low average life expectancy…
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Conor Smyth
America is Exceptional in Experiencing Declining Life Expectancy as Healthcare Spending Skyrockets
From 1997 through 2021, US life expectancy declined. Meanwhile, healthcare spending soared. In this post, I graph the trends.
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Conor Smyth

March 2020

August 2019

For Bernie, The Washington Post’s Hatred Is Pure
The Post is apoplectic that Bernie would call out its bias.
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Conor Smyth
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