Economics
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Rent Control Will Make the Housing Crisis Worse
America is in the midst of a housing crisis. Homelessness hit a record high last year, rising 18 percent in…
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Will Bitcoin Strengthen or Weaken US Dollar Dominance?
The reported death of US dollar dominance has been greatly exaggerated. The dollar’s demise has been repeatedly prophesied, supposedly threatened…
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The OECD’s Warning to America: Economic Growth Is Slipping
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) latest economic outlook should serve as a wake-up call for Washington. While…
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Semiconductor Giants with Tech-Industrial Ambitions
In 1961, with global politics chilled by the looming Cold War, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his farewell address, warning…
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Nigeria’s Shea Ban Backfires, Crushing Millions of Women Workers
In August, the Associated Press reported that Nigeria had passed a law prohibiting the export of raw shea nuts —…
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Housing’s Deep Freeze: Existing Home Sales at 25-Year Lows
The American housing market is no stranger to boom and bust cycles, but the current slowdown in existing home sales…
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What I Saw in Milei’s Argentina
Argentina’s recent $20 billion currency swap agreement with the US underscores the delicate balance of economic reform and the vital need for…
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Tariffs Rest on Distrust of Citizens
Creating a long list of the familiar flaws in protectionists’ thinking is easy. Protectionists don’t realize that, although trade ‘destroys’…
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I Was a Victim of Cancel Culture. Don’t Perpetuate It.
Activists from the left have tried to “cancel” me multiple times. I lost an academic job opportunity despite the support…
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Mission Creep: The Fed’s Foray Into State and Local Debt
Five years ago, The CARES Act authorized the Federal Reserve to create emergency lending facilities in the name of aiding…
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