Economics
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Fed Holds Rates Steady Amid Economic Uncertainty
The Federal Reserve board isn’t committing to rate cuts, voting to holding its policy interest rate at 4.25 to 4.5 percent. As inflation and employment trends stabilize, caution is warranted.
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Sunnova Bankruptcy Signals Tough Times for Solar
Solar energy’s global growth relied on heavy government subsidies. As subsidies dry up, expect the sector to shrink.
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The Economics of Divorce: A New Paper Examines the Harm to Children
Even controlling for children within the same families, the long-term economic impact of parental divorce remain stark.
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Improving on the One Big Beautiful Reconciliation Bill
Preserving the de minimis tariff exemption for low-cost imports would save low-income households billions.
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Xi Jinping Braces For Struggle
China’s strongman leader is purging his advisors again, looking politically insecure amid demographic and economic decline.
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Taking Government Out of GDP, An Update
Government spending comes at a cost to our standard of living: it’s time to stop counting weapons systems as citizens’ economic welfare.
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How Interest Rates Set Asset Prices: One Weird Trick
A low funds rate artificially inflated asset values for much of the past 30 years. Zombie industries are now addicted to cheap borrowing.
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Nixon to Now: How the Kitchen Debate Came Home
The recent wave of protectionism is not about efficiency or economic growth. It’s about national control — about engineering particular outcomes.
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Three-Dimensional Trade Chess, Explained
The White House claims tariffs can accomplish three concrete things. Even if each were correct, they’re mutually exclusive.
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How Tariffs Kill Knowledge and Leave Us in the Dark
Markets aren’t machines for distribution; they’re dynamic processes of entrepreneurial discovery. Tariffs dim the signals that reveal what no planner ever could.
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Fed Holds Rates Steady Amid Economic Uncertainty
The Federal Reserve board isn’t committing to rate cuts, voting to holding its policy interest rate at 4.25 to 4.5 percent. As inflation and employment trends stabilize, caution is warranted.
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•
Sunnova Bankruptcy Signals Tough Times for Solar
Solar energy’s global growth relied on heavy government subsidies. As subsidies dry up, expect the sector to shrink.
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•
The Economics of Divorce: A New Paper Examines the Harm to Children
Even controlling for children within the same families, the long-term economic impact of parental divorce remain stark.
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•
Improving on the One Big Beautiful Reconciliation Bill
Preserving the de minimis tariff exemption for low-cost imports would save low-income households billions.
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•
Xi Jinping Braces For Struggle
China’s strongman leader is purging his advisors again, looking politically insecure amid demographic and economic decline.
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•
Taking Government Out of GDP, An Update
Government spending comes at a cost to our standard of living: it’s time to stop counting weapons systems as citizens’ economic welfare.
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•
How Interest Rates Set Asset Prices: One Weird Trick
A low funds rate artificially inflated asset values for much of the past 30 years. Zombie industries are now addicted to cheap borrowing.
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•
Nixon to Now: How the Kitchen Debate Came Home
The recent wave of protectionism is not about efficiency or economic growth. It’s about national control — about engineering particular outcomes.
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•
Three-Dimensional Trade Chess, Explained
The White House claims tariffs can accomplish three concrete things. Even if each were correct, they’re mutually exclusive.
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How Tariffs Kill Knowledge and Leave Us in the Dark
Markets aren’t machines for distribution; they’re dynamic processes of entrepreneurial discovery. Tariffs dim the signals that reveal what no planner ever could.