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California’s Latest Tax Proposal Puts Innovation at Risk
California says its new billionaire tax is about billionaires.
Jun 18
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Vera Kozakar
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The Methodology Laundering of Minimum Wage Research
A new paper shows that "modern" diff-in-diff methods produce the same old answer: once you fix the flawed choices buried inside them.
Jun 17
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Jack Salmon
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Billion Dollar Rescissions Won’t Fix the Trillion Dollar Debt Problem
This is a guest post by a Fiscal Team intern Cameron Ewine.
Jun 16
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More Pritchett, Less Piketty
Last week, Thomas Piketty and 45 co-authors at the World Inequality Lab released what they call the Global Justice Report. Piketty summed up the main…
Jun 13
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Veronique de Rugy
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Introducing the Free to Give Index: Grading Every State on Philanthropic Freedom
This week, Philanthropy Roundtable published the Free to Give Index, a comprehensive, state-by-state assessment of the policy environments that shape…
Jun 12
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Jack Salmon
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The Paris-to-Sacramento Pipeline: How Three Economists Built a Blueprint for Taking Your Stuff
A coordinated agenda to impoverish rich countries and keep poor countries poor in plain sight
Jun 11
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Veronique de Rugy
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The White House has a Serious Tariff Problem
The time has arrived when those in the White House are finally being forced to confront the real effects of tariffs, and they are doing so as expected…
Jun 8
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Liberalization and the Environment: Economic Freedom's Environmental Dividend
Two months ago, I wrote about a new paper testing the core empirical predictions of the degrowth framework and finding them wanting.
Jun 8
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Jack Salmon
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Obamacare’s Fraud Problem Is an Incentives Problem
A new paper from the Paragon Health Institute, The Persistent Obamacare Enrollment Fraud, documents a remarkable fact about the Affordable Care Act…
Jun 4
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Jack Salmon
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May 2026
Forget Waste, Fraud and Abuse. Focus on Improper Payments
Why measurable improper payments beat a familiar but slippery budget catchphrase
May 29
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Joshua Rowley
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The Saez-Zucman California Billionaire Tax Proposal Ignores One Important Question
Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman have spent the better part of a decade arguing that billionaires are undertaxed.
May 28
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Jack Salmon
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Did High Taxes Build the Middle Class?
The Myth of America’s High-Tax Golden Age
May 26
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Jack Salmon
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