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Professor of Applied Economics @JohnsHopkins | Distinguished Senior Scholar @mises | @Fortune | FX & Commodity Trader | Reagan White House | Views are my own
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America at 250: why the Constitution was built to restrain government, not celebrate majority rule

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By Steve Hanke
| Yahoo Verified
Most people, including most Americans, would be surprised to learn that the word democracy does not appear in the Declaration of Independence (1776) or the Constitution of the United States of America (1789). They would also be shocked to learn the reason for the absence of the word democracy in the founding document. Contrary to what the public has been led to believe, America's Founding Fathers were skeptical and anxious about democracy.
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Local Judge's View: Courts ensure justice promised becomes justice delivered

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By Steve Hanke
| Duluth News Tribune Verified
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that enslaved people were free. President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation more than two years earlier, but freedom written on paper had not yet become freedom in practice. That delay offers an enduring lesson for our judicial system: A right declared is not necessarily a right delivered.
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Social Security and Medicare are heading toward insolvency. Congress has 6 years to act

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By Steve Hanke, David Walker
| Yahoo Finance Verified
Earlier this week, the Annual Social Security and Medicare Reports were issued. They were over two months late, and without the concurrence of two public trustees. That’s because two public trustee positions have been vacant for over ten years. The reports project that the Social Security Old Age and Survivors (OASI) Trust Fund will be exhausted in late 2032. The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (Part A) isn’t in much better shape. It is expected to become exhausted in 2033.
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