Paul Mueller

Economics

The Ex-Communist Who Invented Modern Conservatism

Daniel Flynn’s recent biography, The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer, sheds an interesting light…

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Liberty, Risk, and Permission to Live Dangerously

When my eldest son was four years old, he climbed on top of a batting cage at a park in…

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The Fed Cuts, but the Market Shrugs: Why Mortgage Rates Refuse to Fall

I wrote a few weeks ago about how Trump’s manipulation of the Federal Reserve would have to go much further…

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How Does the Federal Reserve Set Interest Rates?

Introduction People in financial markets and in the media regularly track Federal Reserve announcements and forecast what the Fed’s interest…

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How Do Communities Form? Exploring ‘Social Philosophers’

The Social Philosophers by Robert Nisbet is a tour de force through human history and philosophy. He grounds the unifying…

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Trump Plays for All the Federal Reserve Marbles

After the dismal July jobs report, President Trump has doubled down on his efforts to pressure the Federal Reserve to…

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IOUs to Inflation: The Realistic Limits of Magic Money Theory

Recently, a couple of advocates of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) wrote in The Hill about “Why we should stop worrying…

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What the End of the Chevron Doctrine Means

Paul Mueller explains how the regulatory environment and economy changes with the end of the Chevron Doctrine.

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Sunnova Bankruptcy Signals Tough Times for Solar

One of the largest residential solar installers, Sunnova, went belly up on June 8. The company had over $10 billion…

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DEI is a Con: Five Hallmarks of a Hustle

The retreat of DEI may be one of the biggest political and cultural reversals in recent history. Corporate America is…

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