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Moore Says Conservatives Losing Their Way on Taxes

Stephen Moore alleges that conservatives are losing their way on taxes: A new economic plan is circulating called “Room to Grow,” and one of its premises seems to be that tax rates aren’t important for...

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Is Government Threat of Punishment Keeping Private Universities from Cutting...

Federal policies unquestionably deserve some blame for skyrocketing tuition costs. Washington subsidizes student borrowing, and colleges in turn raise prices to capture federal dollars. Higher prices...

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Minimum Wage Follies

The great Krugtron the Invincible argues the minimum wage can be increased without much consequence. He says there’s “hardly any cost to raising it,” and that “we can raise these wages without losing...

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Critics, Not Uber, Should Apologize

I recently sent the following letter to the Washington Post: To the Editor: Many reacted with disgust to the story about Uber’s use of surge-pricing during the recent hostage taking in Sydney [“Uber...

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Perhaps the Most Important Issue for the New Congress to Get Right

My column this week at EveryJoe argues the need for reform at CBO and JCT. It may seem like inside baseball type stuff, but it is critically important if we ever want to be able to shrink government....

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Third Time Won’t Be the Charm in Greece

Greece is getting bailed out for the third time in just five years, proving yet again that lessons from political mistakes are rarely heeded. As I wrote last month in a column for EveryJoe: The simple...

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Getting Better All The Time

You wouldn’t know it from the popularity of Thomas Piketty’s anti-capitalism treatise, or the Pope’s routine railing against free markets, but the world is getting ever more prosperous. The dramatic...

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Market Power

The Week has a great story (hat-tip: Alex Tabarrok) about how Feeding America, which runs the largest network of food banks and is the third largest non-profit in the U.S., drastically improved its...

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Why Just Stop With Tariffs on China?

Noted scholar and respected intellectual Donald Trump has unveiled another part of his plan to “make America great again:” Donald J. Trump said he would favor a 45 percent tariff on Chinese exports to...

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Don’t Expand “Buy American,” End It

Last Monday President Trump signed yet another “Buy American” Executive Order proposing significant changes for procurement rules. The EO encourages the Federal Acquisition and Regulatory (FAR) Council...

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