Policy
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Tariffs Don’t Save Industries — Markets Do
America’s industrial capacity is today at an all-time high — and not because of tariffs.
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The Bipartisan War on Credit Hurts the Poor
Capping fees and interest rates won’t make lenders offer bad loans. But it does limit the options for poor and marginal borrowers to access credit.
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The High Cost of Cheap Rent: Why Rent Control Fails the Market and People
Capped rent provides short-term relief for a select few, but harms the broader housing market and exacerbates the problems it purports to solve.
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Cali Lawmakers Admit the Plastic Bag Ban Backfired, So They’re Doubling Down
Lawmakers’ misguided efforts actually increased plastic waste. But that total failure hasn’t delivered any humility.
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How the Chicago Teachers Union Turned the Public School System Into a Dumpster Fire
All seven members of the Chicago Board of Education resigned in protest following pressure from Mayor Brandon Johnson and his top campaign contributor, the teachers union.
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Trump’s Subsidized IVF Spells Disaster
“Trump’s plan is a disaster from the perspective of cost, incentives, and value neutrality.” ~Vanessa Brown Calder
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Supermarket Merger Muddle
“Traditional supermarkets have been losing a great deal of market share to those excluded from that definition.” ~Gary Galles
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Trade Deficits: Accounting Masquerading as Economics
“Reducing ‘imports’ would not, in fact, increase GDP at all. At best, doing so would leave GDP unchanged since we would be adding less to consumption, investment, and government spending while subtracting equally less from imports.” ~David Hebert
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The Dollar and its Domestic Enemies
“The greatest threat to the soundness and utility of the US dollar comes not from shadowy figures in faraway lands, but from unremarkable apparatchiks carrying out the edicts of US officialdom.” ~Peter C. Earle
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Biden’s Latest Student-Loan Bailout
“What the Secretary purports to exercise in the proposed rule is no ‘discretionary’ authority appropriate to the executive branch; it is full-blown legislative authority, treading into the appropriations domain constitutionally reserved to Congress.” ~Jack Fitzhenry and GianCarlo Canaparo
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Tariffs Don’t Save Industries — Markets Do
America’s industrial capacity is today at an all-time high — and not because of tariffs.
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•
The Bipartisan War on Credit Hurts the Poor
Capping fees and interest rates won’t make lenders offer bad loans. But it does limit the options for poor and marginal borrowers to access credit.
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•
The High Cost of Cheap Rent: Why Rent Control Fails the Market and People
Capped rent provides short-term relief for a select few, but harms the broader housing market and exacerbates the problems it purports to solve.
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Cali Lawmakers Admit the Plastic Bag Ban Backfired, So They’re Doubling Down
Lawmakers’ misguided efforts actually increased plastic waste. But that total failure hasn’t delivered any humility.
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How the Chicago Teachers Union Turned the Public School System Into a Dumpster Fire
All seven members of the Chicago Board of Education resigned in protest following pressure from Mayor Brandon Johnson and his top campaign contributor, the teachers union.
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Trump’s Subsidized IVF Spells Disaster
“Trump’s plan is a disaster from the perspective of cost, incentives, and value neutrality.” ~Vanessa Brown Calder
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•
Supermarket Merger Muddle
“Traditional supermarkets have been losing a great deal of market share to those excluded from that definition.” ~Gary Galles
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Trade Deficits: Accounting Masquerading as Economics
“Reducing ‘imports’ would not, in fact, increase GDP at all. At best, doing so would leave GDP unchanged since we would be adding less to consumption, investment, and government spending while subtracting equally less from imports.” ~David Hebert
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The Dollar and its Domestic Enemies
“The greatest threat to the soundness and utility of the US dollar comes not from shadowy figures in faraway lands, but from unremarkable apparatchiks carrying out the edicts of US officialdom.” ~Peter C. Earle
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•
Biden’s Latest Student-Loan Bailout
“What the Secretary purports to exercise in the proposed rule is no ‘discretionary’ authority appropriate to the executive branch; it is full-blown legislative authority, treading into the appropriations domain constitutionally reserved to Congress.” ~Jack Fitzhenry and GianCarlo Canaparo