Amol Kapila
1. California’s insurance regulations have forced WellPoint to increase its premiums. As expected, the politicians are using the company as a scapegoat. More here.
2. A superintendent in Rhode Island has confronted unionized teachers by firing an entire school’s staff.
3. Tyler Cowen makes the case for a VAT. Generally good ideas, given the (bad) options among [...]
Amol Kapila
Chris sends my way this article on how too much government has been slowly sucking the blood out of California. I wonder if California suffers from a kind of resource curse. Normally, the resource curse is used to explain why countries with an abundance of natural resources have underperforming economies and corrupt governance. In California’s [...]