Inflation & Taxes
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Trade Does Not Create A National Security Externality
Our choice to trade can’t impose externalities on some other interests’ desire for security. Government doesn’t have goals separate from its citizens’.
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Tariff Tension: Will US Shelves Be Empty By Late May?
Trump’s trade war has disrupted shipments, supply chains, and consumer confidence. Shortages and job losses are sure to follow.
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Tariffs Instead of Taxes? A Back-of-Envelope Estimate
Projected revenue from tariffs ignore the realities of how people and businesses will react. Are we ready to double the cost of everything?
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Is Bitcoin Ready To Retire Gold?
Investors and even central banks have their eye on Bitcoin as a safe haven and hedge, but gold’s global economic shoes are hard to fill.
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Video Game Industry Reeling From US Trade Crackdown
Per capita disposable income dipped by nine percent during the Biden administration. Consumer spending will take more hits from stiff tariffs.
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Victor David Hanson and his Smoot-Hawley Strawman
Economists don’t claim that tariffs caused the Great Depression, but tariffs make bad times worse.
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The Great COVID Exodus: How the Pandemic Sparked a Tax Revolt
Americans are no longer afraid to uproot their lives in pursuit of greater freedom, efficiency, and dignity—and the COVID-19 pandemic is a big reason why.
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Kill Sugar Tariffs (and Corn Subsidies) to Make America Healthy Again
Reducing American’s consumption of high-fructose corn syrup could be as simple as ending the taxes that caused the switch.
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The Tariff Trade-Off Many Economists Ignore
The deadweight loss caused by higher tariffs could, at least in theory, be offset by gains from a lower income tax rate.
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Tariff Turmoil: The Economic Risks of a Global Trade War
A prolonged trade war would be a disaster for the global economy. The consequences would be severe — and self-inflicted.
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Trade Does Not Create A National Security Externality
Our choice to trade can’t impose externalities on some other interests’ desire for security. Government doesn’t have goals separate from its citizens’.
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Tariff Tension: Will US Shelves Be Empty By Late May?
Trump’s trade war has disrupted shipments, supply chains, and consumer confidence. Shortages and job losses are sure to follow.
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•
Tariffs Instead of Taxes? A Back-of-Envelope Estimate
Projected revenue from tariffs ignore the realities of how people and businesses will react. Are we ready to double the cost of everything?
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Is Bitcoin Ready To Retire Gold?
Investors and even central banks have their eye on Bitcoin as a safe haven and hedge, but gold’s global economic shoes are hard to fill.
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Video Game Industry Reeling From US Trade Crackdown
Per capita disposable income dipped by nine percent during the Biden administration. Consumer spending will take more hits from stiff tariffs.
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•
Victor David Hanson and his Smoot-Hawley Strawman
Economists don’t claim that tariffs caused the Great Depression, but tariffs make bad times worse.
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•
The Great COVID Exodus: How the Pandemic Sparked a Tax Revolt
Americans are no longer afraid to uproot their lives in pursuit of greater freedom, efficiency, and dignity—and the COVID-19 pandemic is a big reason why.
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•
Kill Sugar Tariffs (and Corn Subsidies) to Make America Healthy Again
Reducing American’s consumption of high-fructose corn syrup could be as simple as ending the taxes that caused the switch.
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•
The Tariff Trade-Off Many Economists Ignore
The deadweight loss caused by higher tariffs could, at least in theory, be offset by gains from a lower income tax rate.
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•
Tariff Turmoil: The Economic Risks of a Global Trade War
A prolonged trade war would be a disaster for the global economy. The consequences would be severe — and self-inflicted.