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Government "wouldn't really try and provide for everybody... provide pensions, provide healthcare for able-bodied people who are perfectly capable of earning and providing for themselves."

Chris Pope from Manhattan Institute for Policy Research shares from his new book "The Way of American Welfare: Providing For Those Who Can't Provide For Themselves" how the U.S. government's welfare has expanded over the years.

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"The Fed's job is not to hammer the economy every time one particular category of good or service gets more expensive. The job now is to prevent that from spreading into expectations, into wages, and general inflation." Peter C. Earle on CNBC's Squawk Box

"Fundamentally, private responsibility is best. ... The government should only step in when the private sector can't work."

Christopher Pope of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research talks about his new book, "The Way of American Welfare: Providing For Those Who Can't Provide For Themselves."

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What if many of the most widely accepted assumptions about the welfare state are wrong? In his new book, The American Way of Welfare, Chris Pope of Manhattan Institute challenges conventional wisdom about poverty, inequality, and taxation.

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On this week's episode of The Economist Next Door, Paul Mueller sits down with Vance Ginn to discuss the tricky topic of property taxes.

https://aier.org/podcast/congratulations-you-own-your-home-sort-of/

We often talk about "classical liberalism" at AIER. Ryan Yonk gives a quick overview of what the concept does (and doesn't) mean.

In the most recent episode of The Economist Next Door, AIER's Jeff Degner unpacks one of the reasons for the rising cost of a college education.