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2Standard Econ Model Bridges the “Unfortunate Events” and “Original Sin” Explanations for Inflation
Jai Kedia Two weeks ago, some of the biggest names in academia and monetary policy gathered at Brookings to discuss what factors...
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3Fast Facts about Mandatory Spending
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett The federal government will spend $6.3 trillion in 2023, 73 percent is categorized as mandatory and 27...
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2New Evidence That Prescribing Psychologists Can Save Lives
Jeffrey A. Singer Removing barriers to prescribing psychologists (RxPs) saves patients the inconvenience and added expense of seeing a psychiatrist or other health...
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3Not Indentured: Most H‑1Bs Starting Jobs in 2022 Switched U.S. Employers
David J. Bier Critics of the H‑1B visa for skilled foreign workers often claim that the status amounts to “indentured” servitude. Indentured...
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3Biden Administration Doubles Down on Costly “Buying American” Mandates
James Bacchus While praising the “new” trade policy of the Biden administration during a recent interview with PBS, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai...
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4White House Extends Ukraine’s Steel Tariff Exemption; Sad Reminder of Steel Protectionism
Clark Packard On the heels of Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine in early 2022, the Biden administration temporarily exempted Ukrainian steel from...
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2Follow Up on Bank Secrecy Act Data
Nicholas Anthony Last week, I wrote about how there is a lack of official statistics regarding the effectiveness of the Bank Secrecy Act and...
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3Five Rotten Reasons to Oppose Infant Formula Trade Liberalization
Gabriella Beaumont-Smith and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon On May 31, 2023, legislation was introduced to lower U.S. barriers to imports of infant formula...
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1A New Underground Market in E‑Cigarettes Will Soon Begin Flourishing in Australia
Jeffrey A. Singer Writing in the Australian journal The Quadrant a year and a half ago, I criticized the Australian government’s plan to prohibit residents...
