There is a solution to both Europe’s and America’s woes.

Is this the first good way of ranking nations based on societal capital?

Don’t take this advice.

There’s no political party in Italy that wants to solve the problem of excessive spending.

Before our depressing discussion today about the fiscal impact of entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, EITC, Food Stamps, welfare, and Obamacare, etc), here’s a video of how it all began. I think this is a great introduction to the issue, particularly since you learn how “public choice” (i.e., politicians engaging in self-serving behavior) played a key role in the development […]

The poor get trapped in dependency.

It’s not the rich who are financing the Nordic welfare state.

They want America to become another France.

Do voters understand this history?

Finland seems like a great country, but we shouldn’t copy it.