Like many other econ­o­mists and actu­ar­ies, I fought hard against the Wall Street bailout from the start. Was reward­ing Wall Street’s dis­hon­esty and incom­pe­tence really the best thing we could have done with that much money?

Com­pe­ti­tion and choice have given Amer­ica the best uni­ver­si­ties in the world. Why not bring Amer­i­can com­pe­ti­tion and inno­va­tion to K-12 education?

When decid­ing whether to legal­ize a drug, we must com­pare it sci­en­tif­i­cally to cur­rently legal drugs.

The facts: of the 30,000 gun deaths per year, more than half (18,000) are sui­cides. The num­ber of acci­den­tal deaths is about 1000.

Fed­eral and State gov­ern­ments have no right to leg­is­late what goes on between con­sent­ing adults.

There are no incen­tives any­where in the sys­tem to reduce health­care costs. Let’s bring those incen­tives back, and make med­i­cine truly uni­ver­sal through lower costs…