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David J. Bier Last week, I published data leaked from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) showing that 73 percent of individuals booked into...
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Robert A. Levy In earlier posts—February 25, 2025, May 20, 2025, and June 21, 2025—I examined proposals by Donald Trump to enlarge his own...
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Thanks to the Federal Reserve, the US government will always have enough printed money to fund it tyrannical schemes.
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Entrepreneurs, prices, and profit-and-loss coordinate the division of labor that makes prosperity possible.
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Scott Lincicome In my latest Bloomberg column, I explore an unseen cost of the federal government’s recent and unprecedented investments in private US companies:...
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Thomas A. Berry, Brent Skorup, and Alexander Xenos The Constitution vests Congress—not federal agencies or their employees—with the power to decide when Americans must...
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Colleen Hroncich Luba Vangelova had been homeschooling for more than a decade, running in-person groups that blurred the line between co-ops and microschools before...
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Economic historians usually are mistaken when looking at the causes of the Panic of 1857. Douglas E. French sets the record straight.
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Leading up to his selection, Warsh had expertly crafted a message for his chosen audience of one—Donald Trump.
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Chris Edwards The federal government is so large that many of its policies work at cross-purposes. The government exhorts us to eat healthy, but...
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Jeffrey A. Singer On January 29, President Trump signed an executive order called The Great American Recovery Initiative. The order does not significantly reform...
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Michael Chapman Among its best books of 2025, The Economist selected Peak Human, What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden...
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Romina Boccia Ending the government shutdown restored benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), but it also highlighted a broader issue in welfare...
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Many of the same Democratic lawmakers now condemning the shooting of survivors of the alleged drug boat strike had no problem when presidents they...
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New York’s mayor-elect believes he can implement socialist policies through sheer rhetoric, as though mere words can make socialism work. However, economics involves real...