Scott Lincicome Among the research I commended in the 2024 Economic Report of the President (ERP) last week was a solid section on free trade’s “pro‐poor bias,” i.e., that eliminating...
Walter Olson Under the Supreme Court’s commercial speech jurisprudence, businesspeople do not check their First Amendment rights at the gate when they enter the marketplace. In a significant...
Colleen Hroncich Eric Eisenbrey was a middle school science teacher for 10 years, but he often felt like he couldn’t really help his students given the constraints of the...
Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter An important strand of economic analysis suggests that nudges — non‐coercive policies like providing relevant information or adjusting defaults — can significantly...
Marc Joffe Jokes about the abundance of “ambulance chasers” aside, the fact is that some parts of America face a shortage of lawyers rather than the surplus that...
Robert A. Levy Competition is an essential ingredient of capitalism. Accordingly, when a corporation appears to have acquired sufficient market dominance to discourage competitors, it’s tempting to ask...
David Boaz Ideological labels are challenging. They change over time. They often originate as terms of abuse for one’s opponents. The proto‐liberal Levellers in the mid‐1600s got...
Jeffrey A. Singer This week, Idaho’s Republican Governor Brad Little signed HB 617 into law. The bill repeals Idaho’s five‐year‐old law that permits harm reduction organizations to...
Chris Edwards In his State of the Union speech on March 7, President Biden complained about corporate tax breaks and argued that corporations should pay their fair...
Nicholas Anthony Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was recently questioned over growing concerns that a US central bank digital currency, or CBDC, might be launched in the near...