VERONIQUE de RUGY
Veronique de Rugy is the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and a senior…
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Will Biden Back California’s Under-the-Radar Scheme To Hobble America’s Railroads?
Coast regulators want to phase out diesel rail locomotives, the mainstay of American long-haul freight transportation.
Use by Congress of ‘Emergency’ Powers To Move the $95 Billion for Israel, Ukraine, and Other Allies Is a Recipe for Trouble
The strategy relieves the legislators of having to have a conversation about tradeoffs and offsets and allows it to double down on fiscal irresponsibility.
If Your Taxes Were Too High This Year, Just Wait Until America’s Debt Bill Comes Due
If spending isn’t cut, taxes will have to be raised on everyone, a lot.
Can America Return to the Fiscal and Monetary Norms Established by Hamilton, Its First Treasury Secretary?
The fear is that eroding fiscal norms will change investors’ expectations about being repaid for government debt, something that comes with just about every bad economic consequence one can imagine.
Washington’s ‘Job Creation’ Circus Is Spending Trillions for Corporate Welfare, With Little Impact on Hiring
Industrial policy won’t create jobs for poorly educated workers, but it will supercharge cronyism.
If the Economy Is So Great, Why Are Americans So Grumpy? New Study Reckons Inflation Is Underestimated
Even if every newspaper and the President insist that Americans’ lives are getting better because of falling inflation, we know that’s not right.
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