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Balancing Act: The VA’s Servicing Purchase (VASP) Program Sparks Debate Over Veteran Aid and Taxpayer Risk
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) home loan program has long been a cornerstone of support for American service members transitioning to civilian life. However, a relatively new initiative, the Veterans Affairs Servicing Purchase (VASP) program, launched in May 2024,…
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It’s Time for Time Limits on Public Housing
After two decades on Wall Street, you learn something fundamental: incentives matter. They shape behavior. In government, we often talk about compassion for those struggling — and I believe that impulse is genuine and necessary. But compassion without accountability becomes…
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Empowering Educators: A Conservative Approach to Educational Improvement
A viable approach to improving education outcomes — empowering teachers and local communities rather than imposing top-down curriculum mandates.
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Can the Fed Tame Inflation Without Triggering a Recession?
The US economy currently exhibits signs of strength but faces significant inflationary pressures. The Federal Reserve’s attempts to curb inflation through tighter monetary policy raise the risk of a recession, which presents a dilemma for policymakers. Due to the underlying…
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Klavan’s Latest Is So Immersive; You’ll Be Solving Crimes Right Alongside Cameron Winter
Here’s something leadership education doesn’t teach you: the most practical training comes from fiction. Not the sterile case studies in business school, but genuine storytelling that forces you into moral complexity. Klavan’s work does this better than most contemporary writers.…
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Restoring Civics in Higher Education
Civics is the word we use when we talk about teaching students how democracy actually works. Not how it’s supposed to work in theory, but how it functions in practice — the competing interests, the institutional constraints, the trade-offs inherent…
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Pinto and Peter on Housing Affordability: A Market-Oriented Approach
This document summarizes a policy paper by Edward Pinto and Tobias Peter advocating for market-oriented reforms to address housing unaffordability in the United States. The authors, affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute, argue that supply constraints are the primary culprit…
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The Federal Reserve Needs to Change Course!
In 2008, I was working at Citigroup in NYC. Ben Bernake was the Fed Chairman, and rumors about which bank would fail next were swirling. Hearing concerns today about the monetary mistakes the Federal Reserve made 15 years ago is…
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