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“Without tariffs,” the President said on his affordability tour in Georgia, “everybody would be bankrupt, the whole country would be bankrupt.” In court, the...
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Conversations around artificial intelligence have dominated the news cycle and culture at large for the better part of three years, with concerns becoming amplified...
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Markets have long been accused of lacking morality. On February 10, the Vatican decided to supply one. The Institute for the Works of Religion...
Economy
New York City’s new mayor Zohran Mamdani made housing affordability a big part of his campaign. On his first day in office, he signed...
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Robot foot soldier of Skynet, the apocalyptic artificial superintelligence of the Terminator film franchise. Maybe it’s a law of history: every innovation faces opposition. The early...
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at a press conference. 2024. The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced a 50 basis point cut...
Economy
Frustrated factory workers can be enticed to invest in their own enrichment if constraints on human capital are relieved. Few deny the importance of...
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Skulls of young men murdered by the Pol Pot regime in the Killing Fields of Cambodia; on display in a shrine to the dead...
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Although I’ve taught Principles of Microeconomics (“ECON 101”) nearly every year now for the past 42 years, I never tire of this course. I...
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Experts were tracking a mental health crisis among Gen Z college students, even before they were quarantined, masked, and socially distanced. In 2018, 1,200...
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Electricity is among the most-regulated sectors of the U.S. economy. A century of public-utility regulation of entry and rates has given way to new...
Economy
A mural anticipates Taylor Swift’s show at Wembley Stadium in London. 2024. Last week, former President Donald Trump stirred the pot by posting a...
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A young mother prepares a meal for her child. Nearly ten years ago, I wrote what I thought was a provocative essay about polygamy...
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“The Blessings of Protection,” lithograph criticizing steel industry tariffs. Louis Dalrymple. Puck, 1901. Original caption: “The poor foreigner couldn’t get his rails for Twenty-four...
