To Grow Freely, Resist the “New Right”

"Under the guise of a new form of conservatism, this faction argues for increased government intervention in the economy, protectionist…

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Inflation Slightly Below Target in July

"The federal funds rate target range is likely to be at least a full percentage point lower by the end…

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Harris’s Child Tax Credit Plan Punishes Working Families 

"Now is not the time to add even more spending to future taxpayers’ tab. The very Americans who the Harris…

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Did the Bank of England Set Britain on the Road to Ruin? 

"officials sent out critical letters to Truss and her Chancellor, containing an analysis that has since proved incorrect, and which…

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Food Profit Margins Shrink, But Harris Blames Them for Rising Grocery Bills 

"Based on her insistence that price gouging is responsible for high grocery prices — when it clearly is not —…

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Free Market Fundamentals and NatCon Inconsistencies

"I’ve never encountered a protectionist of any stripe who explains why the jobs preserved by protectionism have a higher non-material…

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Does a Builders’ Cartel Explain Rising Rents?

"Stoller and Quintero may well be right that home-builder concentration does reduce housing supply and raise costs, but it hasn’t…

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Regulatory Burden Falls Hardest on the Poor

"Occupational licensing — the costly requirement of a license to be engaged in a particular profession — has grown massively…

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Beijing’s Sovereign Claims for Tibet

"Chinese policy ignores the reality that Tibetans care more about their own distinctive culture, history, and identity than they care…

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Interventions, Easy Money Run Amok

"An obvious set of perverse incentives simply stimulate more risk-taking by corporate management and investment firms in the future, resulting…

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