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Reflections on Saturday Morning TV—and The Regulations That Ended It
My childhood (metaphorically speaking) ended in the early 2000s, when traditional, kid…
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Reflections on Saturday Morning TV—and The Regulations That Ended It
My childhood (metaphorically speaking) ended in the early 2000s, when traditional, kid-focused, Saturday morning broadcast television was fading away…
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Monetary Policy Rules Suggest Fed Should Hold Steady in March
The Federal Open Market Committee is widely expected to leave its federal funds rate target unchanged at 3.5 to 3.75 percent when it meets on March …
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Can Immigration Address America’s Fiscal Nightmare? It Depends
On February 11, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest Budget and Economic Outlook . It made for grim reading. Deficits are histor…
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Fed Officials Face Diverging Mandates
Inflation ticked down in January, the latest data released Friday from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows. But it still remains well above the Fe…
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China's AI Paradox: Can Innovation Thrive in a Captive Mind?
In the technology arms race between the United States and China for dominance in artificial intelligence (AI), we are often told that the decisive fa…
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The End of Pax Americana
On February 20, the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a stinging rebuke. In a 6-3 decision, the justices ruled that the International Em…
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Warsh: The Fed Helped Create Fiscal Dominance
For decades, economists have warned about the risk of fiscal dominance . Over the past year, the topic has graduated to news headlines . At first g…
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