PolicyBytes

Health insurance premiums are exploding, but they would be much higher had health insurers not taken a number of mostly unpopular steps to stem the increases.

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders claim the economic system is "rigged" in favor of corporations and the rich; turns out a lot of Americans agree.

The Constitution and representative government won a victory against government overreach in the courts today, but it may not mean much—for now.

Having learned nothing from the last housing crisis, President Obama sets the country up for another mortgage meltdown.

Yes, wage compensation appears to have been stagnant for decades, but that's not the whole story.

Hillary Clinton claims to be very concerned about the number of Americans with student loan debt, but unconcerned about the millions more who have mortgage debt, which raises the question of whether she is only trying to use taxpayer dollars to buy votes.

Leftists and unions are protesting against Argentina President Macri because he is cutting government jobs and scaling back government utility subsidies—both of which the U.S. should be doing also.

Liberal nannies raised taxes on sugary drinks to reduce consumption, so why don't they realize that raising taxes on earnings, savings and investment will have a similar impact.

There are lessons to be learned by comparing welfare reform's 20-year success story with Obamacare's five years of failure. For example, bipartisanship. 

The federal government has announced that Obamacare's Medicaid expansion cost much more than it had predicted, and no one was surprised except, apparently, the federal government.