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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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Dec 2, 2009
Why this new American Experiment symposium? For a variety of reasons, starting with the assumption that unless commerce in a neighborhood—or at least in its vicinity—is vibrant, chances are little else will be either, including income levels, public safety, and graduation rates, to pick just three gauges.
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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 Jake Haulk
Sep 26, 2008
In yet another verification of the Hayekian warning that government involvement in the marketplace begets more government involvement, we now face the mother of all financial market bailouts, putatively to prevent a credit market collapse of economy-endangering proportion.
Sep 26, 2008
In light of the ongoing financial crisis, on Monday of this week (September 22), I invited think tank and other colleagues from around Minnesota and the nation to address a purposely free-wheeling question: “What’s a free marketeer to think?”
We published four quick-turnaround columns in Volume One on Tuesday, another four in Volume Two on Wednesday, and we’re pleased to broadly disseminate six more in Volume Three today
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Aug 1, 2008
Principle and Pragmatism: Getting the Balance Right is part of year-long series of Center activities aimed at re-energizing conservatism in Minnesota and the nation. In this symposium, writers responded to subtle questions about principle and pragmatism with commensurately nuanced answers.
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Jan 1, 2008
A symposium featuring 40 writers addressing what it means to be an urban conservative.