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Poverty The War on Economic Growth Is a War on the Poor No poor country has ever achieved decent living standards without first...
The new "Global Justice Report" by the World Inequality Lab in France — which calls for caps on economic growth in rich countries, top...
Inequality The Economist Who Wants To Make the World Poorer Thomas Piketty's plan is a comprehensive program for global managed...
Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand was often accused of inventing cartoonish villains. Rogues like Ellsworth Toohey in "The Fountainhead" would...
Health Care After 40 Years, No One Has Produced a Workable Single-Payer Health Care Plan Vermont passed single-payer legislation in...
Billionaire progressive activist and California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer recently remarked, "Health care companies only care about one...
wealth tax How the Billionaire Tax Could Make California Poorer One upcoming ballot measure would expand the state's taxing power....
Californians will face two competing tax measures this November. The first is the Billionaire Tax Act, a one-time, five percent levy on the...
Tariffs Trump's Approval Rating Is Cratering. Tariffs Are a Big Reason Why. They cost each American household roughly $1,000 in...
Business and Industry When Businesspeople Run Government, the Government Doesn't Become a Business Central planning from Commerce...
Retirement Trump's Government-Funded Retirement Plan Misses the Point The fiscal objection is serious. But the deeper problem is...
President Donald Trump and Congress want to help you increase your savings. And you should. At the household level, saving is the foundation of...
Inequality The Marriage Gap Is America's Most Overlooked Source of Inequality Every dollar of well-intentioned government...
The most consequential inequality in America is not the wealth gap or the wage gap. It may not be the racial opportunity gap. The marriage gap is...
Government Spending America's Debt Problem Is a Health Care Problem And the government's "solution" is making it worse. ...
America has a spending problem. It also has a healthcare problem. These are not two separate crises but rather the same crisis wearing different...
Taxes 'The Rich Don't Pay Their Fair Share' and 4 Other Tax Myths That Won't Die The United States has the most progressive...
Every April, Americans spend more than 7 billion hours filing taxes and roughly the same amount of time arguing over them, almost entirely on the...
Budget Trump's New Budget—Which Proposes $1.5 Trillion for Defense—Is Unserious. You Should Still Take It Seriously. It would...
Industrial Policy The World Bank Used To Champion Markets. Now It's Surrendering to State-Led Industrialization. The reversal...
Government Spending How Will Congress Fund a $300 Billion War With Iran? Lawmakers used to offset its emergency spending. They...
Whatever you think of the war in Iran, there's a separate question — independent of the military merits - that Congress must answer: How will...
Yesterday, the House Financial Services Committee's Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions...
wealth tax California's Billionaire Tax Won't Save Hospitals The state's funding crisis is driven by a third-party payment system...
I try to be fair to people I disagree with. Emmanuel Saez — the famous UC Berkeley economist who's considered an architect of California's...
Taxes Tax the Rich All You Want. It Won't Fix the Deficit. The problem is not that the government collects too little. It's that...
Health Care The Tax Loophole That Made U.S. Health Care Unaffordable The employer insurance exclusion has chained workers to their...
America's healthcare system consistently ranks as the most expensive in the developed world. It's not, as some politicians claim, expensive...
Following the tariff ruling, some people (including me) are wondering what happens to the trade deals extorted from our trading partners under duress....
In a column this week about the Congressional Budget Office's ten-year projection report, I wrote: As always, the CBO's report relies on...
The Trump administration has both a tariff problem and an economic reasoning problem. Recently, two senior officials have pushed back against a New...
Bad ideas, like bad legislation, never die. Case in point: the Rail Safety Act. A little background. In 2023, after the derailment in East...
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