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Raising Taxes Has a Populist Ring
President Obama's Capital Gains Tax Envy, RealClearMarkets.com, Diana Furchtgott-Roth

"Buffett Rule" Fact Check
No, You Don't Have to Make $200,000 to Have a Higher Tax Rate than Buffett, Forbes.com, Josh Barro

MI Experts Comment on SOTU
"The key legacy of Obamacare if it stays as law is what it does to fix our entitlement crisis into a further trend of runaway growth." -- Avik Roy

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White Blight
Charles Murray depicts an increasingly two-tiered white America.

Christian Schneider
It's Working in Walker's Wisconsin
The governor's controversial labor reforms are already saving taxpayers millions.

Marcus A. Winters
How's My Teaching?
More policymakers are adopting evaluation systems based on classroom performance.

 

2011 Urban Innovator Award

Speakers: Gina Raimondo, Howard Husock, Michael Allegretti
January 5, 2012

2011 William E. Simon Lecture

Speakers: Howard Husock, Clayton Christensen
December 14, 2011
 
MI Podcasts

HEALTHCARE
Paul Howard talks with Ralph Hall, Professor of Practice at the University of Minnesota Law School, about reauthorization of the Medical Device User Fee Act.

HIGHER EDUCATION
Herb London and Howard Husock discuss two situations in the United Kingdom and the controversial admission of political figures from the Middle East.

 

 
           
 

Triborough Trouble explains how the law requires public employers to maintain all contractual perks for unionized public employees, including automatic "step" increases in pay, after the expiration of a union contract.

 

Storm Clouds Ahead: Why Conflict with Public Unions Will Continue, a new issue brief by Daniel DiSalvo, argues that the repeal of SB 5 in Ohio is not a referendum on the terms of public sector employment but rather the latest in a series of ongoing conflicts that will arise between governments and public-employee unions.

 

The High Cost of Wind Energy as a Carbon-Dioxide Reduction Method, a new Issue Brief by Manhattan Institute senior fellow, Robert Bryce, finds that wind energy's ability to reduce CO2 is so insignificant and so expensive that it proves an impractical government policy.

 
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