Charting Some of Industrial Policy’s Opportunity Costs
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Surprisingly, the World Is Becoming More Equal
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Full Expensing Is a Key Piece of the Republican
Adam N. Michel Republicans will soon release an economic package that addresses a number of significant tax changes that have already
Standard Econ Model Bridges the “Unfortunate Events” and
Jai Kedia Two weeks ago, some of the biggest names in academia and monetary policy gathered at Brookings to discuss
Fast Facts about Mandatory Spending
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett The federal government will spend $6.3 trillion in 2023, 73 percent is categorized as mandatory
New Evidence That Prescribing Psychologists Can Save Lives
Jeffrey A. Singer Removing barriers to prescribing psychologists (RxPs) saves patients the inconvenience and added expense of seeing a psychiatrist or
Not Indentured: Most H‑1Bs Starting Jobs in 2022
David J. Bier Critics of the H‑1B visa for skilled foreign workers often claim that the status amounts to “indentured”
Biden Administration Doubles Down on Costly “Buying American”
James Bacchus While praising the “new” trade policy of the Biden administration during a recent interview with PBS, U.S. Trade Representative
White House Extends Ukraine’s Steel Tariff Exemption; Sad
Clark Packard On the heels of Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine in early 2022, the Biden administration temporarily exempted Ukrainian
Follow Up on Bank Secrecy Act Data
Nicholas Anthony Last week, I wrote about how there is a lack of official statistics regarding the effectiveness of the Bank Secrecy