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The Fed is cutting its discount rate again, but Americans will be disappointed with the results, as the Fed’s latest action only contributes to...
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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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One way to compare prices of similar commodities and services over long periods of time is to convert the nominal prices to ounces of...
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Tad DeHaven The Trump administration says that it will sell Venezuelan oil at market prices and oversee the allocation of the proceeds. Trump framed...
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“Let’s be clear: President Trump’s claim that the U.S. government collected $600 billion from tariffs in 2025 is incorrect,” The true amount is closer...
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Neal McCluskey Arguably the biggest thing happening in American K–12 education over the past several years has been culture war: Battles over whose values,...