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Phil Gramm and Donald Boudreaux analyze the impact of one of President Donald Trump’s key economic ideas. A year ago Thursday, President Trump raised the average effective tariff rate to…
Jack Butler writes for National Review Online about a significant problem plaguing elements of the American leadership class. Too many of the nation’s would-be leaders look to the east and…
Duke’s Michael Munger writes for the American Institute for Economic Research about a legislative folly. The North Carolina General Assembly is considering taking some of the current budget surplus and…
HIgher tax rates on additional income are particularly harmful to productivity.
Last month people were outraged when a rogue commissioner on the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission began speaking openly of banning gas stoves. In response, the Biden administration and their…
Preface: The political class has drifted far from Lincoln’s vision of a government “of the people, by the people, for the people” — something that those words and the solemn…
It seems like just a few days ago that The News & Observer (N&O) was running banner headlines and filing multiple stories about how bad power outages are for people.…
Inefficient companies are protected from competition by political favoritism, at the expense of consumers and other domestic companies.
My previous post discussed a critical omission from Emily Oster’s wish for a Covid “amnesty”: there’s no repentance, not even an apology. Oster wrote that those who got it right “had…
My latest piece for the American Institute for Economic Research discusses a critical shortcoming in Emily Oster’s October 31 essay in The Atlantic calling for a “pandemic amnesty.” Covid bullies…
Russian President Vladimir Putin's government covertly funded environmental groups that advocated against fracking and pipelines in Europe and America. The reason? None other than to keep European nations dependent upon…
My latest article for the American Institute for Economic Research finds a flicker of good news amid the blizzard of bad news that has marked the Biden years so far.…