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Italy May Be in Better Fiscal Shape Than the United States
Why Official Debt Statistics Conceal More Than They Reveal
Oct 20
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Jack Salmon
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Small Business Favoritism is Real
Unpacking the Hidden Architecture of America’s Small-Business Favoritism
Oct 17
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Veronique de Rugy
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Against Maritime Subsidies
Maritime subsidies are fiscally irresponsible and unlikely to help Americans
Oct 16
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Caleb Petitt
5
The Tariff Mirage: Fiscal Illusion, Monetary Decline
When Tariffs Become Taxes and Threaten the Dollar’s Throne
Oct 15
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Jack Salmon
3
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Congress Should Stop Subsidizing Short-Line Railroads
The U.S.
Oct 13
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Jack Salmon
2
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The Earned Income Tax Credit’s Hidden Tradeoffs
How a popular anti-poverty program distorts work, education, and long-term growth
Oct 13
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Veronique de Rugy
3
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The Feldstein Lecture, Fiscal Dominance, and the Five Ways Out
Why Debt Arithmetic Always Wins: A Reflection on Mankiw’s ‘Fiscal Future’ and the Limits of Policy Imagination
Oct 10
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Veronique de Rugy
13
Sectoral Shifts and Shrinking Government
What the Jobs Data Really Shows
Oct 9
•
Jack Salmon
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Revana Sharfuddin
5
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The September Jobs Report That Never Was
How We Measure Employment in America
Oct 8
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Jack Salmon
and
Revana Sharfuddin
2
Let the Work Opportunity Tax Credit Expire
At the end of this year, the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is set to expire, and rightly so.
Oct 7
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Jack Salmon
1
How Government Policy Distorts American Diets
Farm Subsidies and the Ultra-Processed Food Crisis
Oct 6
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Joshua Pauze
2
Who’s Afraid of Tariffs? Investors, Especially in “Red” America
Huijun Yan and Randall Morck have a sharp new NBER working paper out: “Who’s Afraid of Tariffs?
Oct 2
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Jack Salmon
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