Alan Reynolds The Federal Reserve chairman and Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) always imagine that they can prevent recession by anticipating trouble in time to stop it. If that were…
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Andrew Gillen Note, this post updates last month’s post. The biggest changes from last month include: the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals halting the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE)…
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This Fed has got to go. It’s time. You’ve overstayed your welcome, Fed Chief Powell. I literally was just shaking my head after reading the changes to the Fed’s policy…
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Walter Olson Here’s another roundup of short-form items on election law and policy: For all the occasional creakiness of our decentralized way of holding elections under the Constitution, the reports…
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Adam N. Michel The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was projected to lower revenue by $1.5 trillion over ten years by the Joint Committee on Taxation at the…
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Nvidia (NVDA) was perhaps the most outstanding semiconductor trade of 2024. While some people might have missed out, there are still plenty of chances to get in. But it’s also…
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Milton Friedman: ‘Crack Would Never Have Existed If You Had Not Had Drug Prohibition’
Michael Chapman Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, a libertarian and one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century, was born on July 31, 1912, and died on November 16,…
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Big Tech Earnings, Fed Meeting, Jobs Report: Will They Add More Pressure to the Stock Market?
Last week, there was a noticeable change in investor sentiment. We have so much data coming out this week, and much will rest on how the trading week ends. The…
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Chris Edwards Which states are Americans moving to and which are they leaving? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released interstate migration data for 2022. The data include the domestic…
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David Inserra Social media users took to X to alert supporters of former President Donald Trump that Google appeared to be suppressing or altering various search results to favor his…