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The Coming Great Repression? a Century of Evidence
New quantity-based indicators measure financial repression across 17 advanced economies since 1920. Repression peaked after WWII, receded with liberalization, and has risen since the GFC, generating measurable fiscal savings.
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Higher Fuel Costs Spike AIER’s Everyday Price Index
Surging fuel prices drove AIER’s Everyday Price Index to its largest monthly gain since May, strengthening the case for Fed tightening. But concentrated price increases leave questions about renewed price pressure.
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Trump’s School Choice Program Could Push Public Schools to Charge New Fees
Districts that charge new fees will likely confront tricky logistical, legal, and philosophical questions.
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Free Enterprise Transformed the American South
The twentieth century saw the American South transformed from widespread poverty into market-driven economic dynamism.
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Evan Barker’s Wisdom and Folly
‘Nothing Left’ is a valuable, entertaining book, but it has a glaring flaw.
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‘Fantasy Economics’ Hit Reality in France
“Thus the fiscal pressure caused largely by France’s very generous government pension plan has led to cutbacks in other spending, notably on education.”
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Is Qualified Immunity Beginning to Crack?
Police officers often violate constitutional rights without facing personal civil liability. A Louisiana traffic stop case signals that protection may be narrowing.
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Electric Vehicle Subsidy U-Turn Leaves Factories and Workers Stranded
GM's production cuts and layoffs show why factories, equipment, and workers cannot adjust overnight. Industrial policy can leave lasting economic costs.
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The Dire National Crisis That Washington Won’t Touch
Adolescents and young adults across the country are collapsing under the weight of isolation and pressure to succeed. There’s no easy fix—but it’s past time for Washington to do something.
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The federal government just posted the largest deficit since COVID
Tax revenue increased by about 3 percent last year, but spending increased twice as fast. And interest payments on the debt cost more than $1.1 trillion.
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Deirdre McCloskey Wants Old Liberalism Back: ‘Equality of Permission’
In Equality of Permission, McCloskey returns to familiar ground: free markets, individual dignity, and the dangers of statism. What makes it distinctive is the force and flair of her argument.
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Australia’s Tobacco Taxes Have Sparked a Criminal Turf War
Australia tried to end smoking with punitive taxes. Instead, it created a lucrative trade for smugglers and a wave of violent attacks on retailers.
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Treasury backs down on Biden-era cryptocurrency surveillance proposal
It’s a small victory for financial privacy against escalating surveillance.
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The Siren Call to Fight Income Inequality
Wu is after a different, larger game: fixing the economy by capitalizing on the uneasiness that is boosting Democratic chances in the midterm election.
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Manufacturing Surged When Tariffs Were Lifted
Tariffs raised costs and manufacturing jobs disappeared. Now, the administration is declaring victory for partially filling the hole it dug.
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Life in The Grim Old Days
Chelsea Follett’s new history shows how wretched life was before the industrial revolution, but our escape from it began long before the steam engine.
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Why Didn’t 2008 Bank Bailouts Produce COVID-Level Inflation?
Washington responded to two crises with extraordinary monetary and fiscal interventions. Why did COVID-era stimulus produce soaring inflation when the response to the 2008 financial crisis did not?
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NY Fed: Inflation on Many Everyday Items Was Entirely Due to Tariffs
Tariffs added 2.9 percentage points to inflation in 67 categories of goods by February 2026, researchers at the New York Federal Reserve found.
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The Biggest Expansion of School Choice Is Still Coming
Thanks to a new tax credit, school choice will become a more attainable option for many American families next year.
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America’s Hidden Millionaires
Bourgeois norms such as work ethic, stability, frugality, and ingenuity can actually make you quite rich.
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Afghanistan, Again? Unlearned Lessons of America’s Longest War
Congress rejected constitutional alternatives in favor of remaking a nation. Abroad, as at home, lawmakers cannot manufacture preferred social outcomes simply by spending more money.
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Economic Blockades: Protectionism As Punishment
The Trump administration calls economic isolation a weapon against Iran and a recipe for prosperity at home. Protectionism is a paradox.
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10-Year Treasury Note Yield Hits Highest Level Since 2002
AGNC’s share price has moved in the opposite direction from the 10-year Treasury yield.
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In the Shadow of Experts
I would be lying if I didn’t admit to being somewhat intimidated once selected for the FEE Teacher Fellowship. I felt under-credentialed in what I expected
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On ‘Laissez-Faire Democracy’
In a new paper, Brennan and Freiman argue persuasively that: the arguments against laissez-faire capitalism apply in a rather straight way against laissez-faire democracy. This should be a rather startling result, considering that laissez-faire capitalism is widely rejected, yet laissez-faire democracy is widely accepted. All the typical market failure arguments–externalities, asymmetric information, principal-agent problems, behavioral
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Rubble to Riches: Reckoning with West Germany’s Postwar Economic Miracle
Tobias Straumann’s new book explains how economic freedoms and currency reform helped West Germany outstrip not just the Soviet Socialist East, but many other nations, on its way to economic recovery.
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AI Consciousness Could Become a Regulatory Moat
Incumbent AI firms may benefit from a regulatory regime in which machine consciousness is considered plausible but remains impossible to prove or disprove.
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