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The second day of the symposium highlighted how top-down healthcare interventions are often blind to what individual patients, physicians, or hospitals need, discussed the nuances between healthcare systems in different countries, and ultimately championed market-based models and competition as the solutions to the governance crisis. A recurrent theme on the second day was Au...

More than half of America’s mapped data centers sit in five states. California is the only one where households pay far above the national average, and data centers don’t explain why. WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than half of the 1,715 U.S. data centers in a new Consumer Choice Center map sit in just five states, and three of those five pay less than the national average for home ...

The United States spends more on healthcare than any other country, yet Americans still face some of the highest prices in the world, narrow choices and uneven quality. The usual debate treats this as a question of money: who pays, and how much. At the Consumer Choice Center, we have long argued that it is just as much a question of rules: who gets to decide, what they are re...

For nearly a decade, former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government made every effort to stymie Canada’s oil and gas sector, insisting sacrificing growth in the sector was necessary for the sake of the environment. Under the Trudeau regime, scores of laws were introduced that blockaded new pipelines and shut down coastal tanker activity, all of which made Canada more subse...

At the end of September, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled against Kalshi, the prediction market platform. The judge ruled that states have the right to regulate Kalshi under state gambling laws if they offer markets for sports outcomes. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine didn’t mince words, calling prediction market platforms “pigs.” DeWine added that they are reall...