Free Markets
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Capping Card Interest Rates Won’t Make Credit Cheaper
APR caps may sound consumer-friendly, but price caps just serve to cut off vulnerable households from legitimate lenders.
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Are Institutions Buying Up Single-Family Homes?
Institutional investors own less than one percent of single-family homes, and their impact on prices is modest. New evidence suggests their presence may reduce rents.
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China’s Rare Earth ‘Monopoly’ — and Why Markets Will Break It
The minerals aren’t rare. China’s marginal advantage is a willingness to accept human and environmental costs other nations eschewed.
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How Money Laundering Became a Catch-All Excuse to Bully and Surveil
Crypto-related prosecutions illustrate how allegations of crime are used to target privacy-enhancing tools and the people who build them.
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Five Years After GameStop: What the Squeeze Actually Changed
Meme-stock investment infusions rescued the company without redeeming its model. Did that borrowed time produce market discipline — or simply delay error correction?
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Are Free Traders Materialistic — or Are Protectionists?
The claim that protectionism serves “higher ends” rests on a confusion about both economics and the non-economic goals people actually value.
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Data-Sharing Agreements for Fintech: the Market Solved What DC Couldn’t
After 15 years of regulatory tug-of-war, banks and fintech companies have reached private arrangements for sharing customer data.
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Obesity Economics: How Subsidies Distort the American Diet
Federal subsidies drive food production, consumption, and — unintentionally — chronic disease. Now we’re being asked to subsidize weight loss drugs to fight what farm policy broke.
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Breakneck: Dan Wang Explores the Strange Symmetry of US and China
Dan Wang explores how the United States and China, while rivals in power, share surprising similarities that shape their economies, politics, and global influence.
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The Loaded Language of Protectionism
It’s trite but true that language matters and can mislead. Nowhere in economic policy is this more evident than in trade.
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Capping Card Interest Rates Won’t Make Credit Cheaper
APR caps may sound consumer-friendly, but price caps just serve to cut off vulnerable households from legitimate lenders.
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Are Institutions Buying Up Single-Family Homes?
Institutional investors own less than one percent of single-family homes, and their impact on prices is modest. New evidence suggests their presence may reduce rents.
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China’s Rare Earth ‘Monopoly’ — and Why Markets Will Break It
The minerals aren’t rare. China’s marginal advantage is a willingness to accept human and environmental costs other nations eschewed.
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•
How Money Laundering Became a Catch-All Excuse to Bully and Surveil
Crypto-related prosecutions illustrate how allegations of crime are used to target privacy-enhancing tools and the people who build them.
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Five Years After GameStop: What the Squeeze Actually Changed
Meme-stock investment infusions rescued the company without redeeming its model. Did that borrowed time produce market discipline — or simply delay error correction?
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•
Are Free Traders Materialistic — or Are Protectionists?
The claim that protectionism serves “higher ends” rests on a confusion about both economics and the non-economic goals people actually value.
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Data-Sharing Agreements for Fintech: the Market Solved What DC Couldn’t
After 15 years of regulatory tug-of-war, banks and fintech companies have reached private arrangements for sharing customer data.
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•
Obesity Economics: How Subsidies Distort the American Diet
Federal subsidies drive food production, consumption, and — unintentionally — chronic disease. Now we’re being asked to subsidize weight loss drugs to fight what farm policy broke.
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•
Breakneck: Dan Wang Explores the Strange Symmetry of US and China
Dan Wang explores how the United States and China, while rivals in power, share surprising similarities that shape their economies, politics, and global influence.
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•
The Loaded Language of Protectionism
It’s trite but true that language matters and can mislead. Nowhere in economic policy is this more evident than in trade.