Recent articles
October 15, 2026
Contributor: Enormous budget deficits are the new normal
And our interest payments are already consuming an alarming share of resources.
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October 9, 2026
Contributor: The real problem with populist price controls
If you create laws to cap prices, scarcity doesn't go away. It just shows up as empty shelves.
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October 1, 2026
When will markets react to rising debt? That's the wrong question
Investors expect Congress to reform entitlements by raising taxes or reducing benefits. If not, the reckoning will come.
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September 24, 2026
Contributor: Can we get some clarity on the latest U.S. trade policy?
President Trump's furious attack on Canada has alienated our closest neighbor and sent them running into the arms of China.
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September 17, 2026
Contributor: The Fed is doing its part to fight inflation. Now Congress needs to act
Nearly six years after our generation's "Great Inflation" began, prices still continue to rise much faster than they should.
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September 10, 2026
Contributor: JD Vance's convoluted scheme to pay stay-at-home parents
If the administration wants to help families, it should remove the barriers that make raising children so expensive.
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September 3, 2026
Contributor: Will Americans get price relief or a Canadian trade war?
New research estimates that a 10% tariff on all imports will raise U.S. consumer prices by about 2.6%.
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August 27, 2026
Contributor: Republicans and Democrats are playing the blame game as the national debt explodes
Unfunded Social Security and Medicare promises are a standing commitment to more debt and future inflation.
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August 20, 2026
Contributor: The wealth tax debate exposes the economic ignorance of politicians
Passing Prop 40 would incentivize founders to cash out rather than grow their businesses, hire more people and create more tax revenue.
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August 13, 2026
Contributor: Americans are getting a rare break from an expensive law
The Jones Act benefits a few special interests at the cost of all of us. So why won't it just die?
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August 6, 2026
Contributor: Do Republicans realize they're doing socialism out in the open?
Federal ownership of private companies has become routine for this administration, even as they busily point fingers at the left.
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July 31, 2026
Contributor: What happens when the U.S. drives away the world's best talent?
The possibility that bright young people will decide America is no longer worth the trouble should terrify us.
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July 23, 2026
Contributor: Waymos save lives. So why are some people still skeptical?
After more than 220 million miles driven throughout the U.S., the brand's vehicles have been involved in 94% fewer crashes causing serious or fatal injury compared with human drivers.
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