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A Brief History of Federal Transfers to the States
Introduction Throughout American history, the federal government has played a role in…
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A Brief History of Federal Transfers to the States
Introduction Throughout American history, the federal government has played a role in state and local policy. The Congressional Research Service (CR…
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America Can't Tariff Its Way Out of This Debt Crisis
“Without tariffs,” the President said on his affordability tour in Georgia, “everybody would be bankrupt, the whole country would be bankrupt.” In c…
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AI Regulation: A Tale of Two Austrian Economists
Conversations around artificial intelligence have dominated the news cycle and culture at large for the better part of three years, with concerns bec…
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Moralizing Markets: Vatican Bank Wades into Faith-Based Indexing
Markets have long been accused of lacking morality. On February 10, the Vatican decided to supply one. The Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR),…
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Tariffs and the New Economic Lysenkoism
Kevin Hassett’s recent call to “discipline” Federal Reserve researchers over a New York Fed study on tariffs is not just a political swipe. It is a …
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Delayed Data Unlikely to Resolve Disagreements at Fed
Delayed data confirms inflation remained well above target in December. The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCEPI), which is the Feder…
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Rents, AI, and Commodity Prices: What Drove State-Level Growth in 2024?
Measuring state-level prices with adequate precision requires a lot of data collection, and there’s always a long lag between the time period measure…
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