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Jul 18, 2011
A reasonable reading of the following 34 brief essays in American Experiment’s newest symposium—What Governmental Services and Benefits Are You Personally Willing to Give Up?—suggests that more Americans than generally assumed may be seriously willing to sacrifice when it comes to major entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. In the interest of balancing the nation’s skewed books, the columns similarly suggest that more people than routinely thought may be willing to forgo various exemptions and other tax breaks, including near-sacred deductions on home mortgage payments.
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Aug 1, 2010
In an American Experiment symposium released last fall, 20 writers grappled with the question of what it would take for them to start or expand a business in a low-income neighborhood. A main rationale for that exercise was the economic fact of life that unless commerce in a neighborhood, or at least in its vicinity, is healthy, chances are that little else will be healthy either, including poverty rates, crime rates, and graduation rates, to pick just three gauges. The not-unrelated new question, considered here by 23 participants, is how we might better encourage and reinforce the most talented and entrepreneurial among us; a core motivation this time being the pivotal importance of creating many more jobs and much more wealth so as to enable the nation to make it through the coming decades of aging-boomer and entitlement-skewed exigencies.
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Mar 1, 2009
How Can Conservatism Better Allay the Economic Fears of Working-Class and Middle-Class Americans? is the third in a current series of American Experiment symposia aimed at vitalizing conservatism in Minnesota and the nation.
By Devin Foley
Oct 2, 2008
I find it hard to believe that no one saw this financial mess coming. I find it even harder to believe that adding another $800 billion of debt is going to fix it.
Oct 2, 2008
In light of the continuing financial crisis, ten days ago I invited think tank and other colleagues from around Minnesota and the nation to tackle the question: “What’s a free marketeer to think?” Here are two new columns, bringing the running total to 20.
By Devin Foley
Sep 24, 2008
We may or we may not be at the brink of Great Depression 2.0. Whether we are or not, the crisis will likely worsen in coming weeks and through it all, the death knell for markets, particularly of the free variety, will be sounded.
Sep 24, 2008
In response to the federal government’s massive new involvement in financial markets, on Monday I invited a number of think tank and other colleagues from around the country and Minnesota to address a purposely free-swinging question: “What’s a free marketeer to think?” We published four pronto columns yesterday and here, in what might be described as Volume Two.
By Devin Foley
Sep 23, 2008
Examples abound in history when real and perceived crises were used to justify tremendous power grabs. Even in the land of the free and the home of the brave we’ve seen our fair share.
Sep 23, 2008
In response to the federal government’s mammoth new involvement in financial markets, on Monday I invited a number of think tank and other colleagues from around the country and Minnesota to address a purposely free-swinging question: “What’s a free marketeer to think?” We will quickly email and post their columns as they come in over the next few weeks. I trust you will find their views consistently insightful, provocative, and helpful.
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Jan 1, 2008
A symposium featuring 40 writers addressing what it means to be an urban conservative.
