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David Dagan retweeted
The team at @NiskanenCenter just wrote the best succinct post on affordability anywhere. The fundamental issue is that the mechanics that address the acute problems either don’t address or exacerbate the chronic problems. substack.com/@matthewrmeyers…
David Dagan retweeted
Introducing Niskanen's healthcare affordability agenda!
This isn't feel-good affordability that chases high prices with demand-side subsidies.
We need to lower prices by expanding supply, restoring competition, and aligning payment incentives with costs.
We have 8 ideas (🧵):
David Dagan retweeted
Americans are feeling financial strain, despite lower inflation rates. And they’re right.
We call these problems ‘Slow Affordability,’ and we’re tackling them in our new Affordability Playbook. 🧵
What if instead of preparing for an AI jobs apocalypse, we plan for an AI jobs blessing? @davidautor's take that AI could rebuild the middle class flips the assumptions driving our recent @NiskanenCenter forum in an intriguing way that might make the ideas MORE relevant. 1/7
Monica replies that based on her read of the evidence, "We need an open, flexible, all-of-the above approach to *apprenticeships.*" 6/7
And that doesn't preclude more robust welfare: "Indeed, it’s quite the opposite: Everywhere we see a developed welfare state, we see a thriving system of apprenticeships." 7/7 hypertext.niskanencenter.org…
The president wants our 250th to be a celebration of his monarchy. And appropriately, he’s seen pushback. But just as critical, there is also quiet resistance: Americans who keep their heads downs, ignore the noise, and just do the work of democracy. hypertext.niskanencenter.org…
David Dagan retweeted
Nonprofits are a largely autonomous bastion of politically unrewarding, civic endeavors.
Their very existence demonstrates the limits of political power. hypertext.niskanencenter.org…
The anti-monopoly folks have ironically consolidated two distinct strands of American political thought and claimed exclusive title to them. One is hostility to artificial privileges; the other is vigilance against corruption. 1/5
Barry Lynn thinks the field of economics is a false science, and all his critics are corrupt. He's winning over Democrats. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
Monopoly absolutely can be a source of artificial privilege and thus lead to corruption, and that is likely part of our problem today. But the American tradition recognizes many paths to these evils and does not force us to pick just one. 4/5
The old system of federal funding to nonprofits is not coming back from Trump’s hatchet job, says Daniel Stid of @AEI. The future, he says, looks like ... 1/2
