To Reverse Persistent Inflation, Congress Will Need To Tame Rampant Federal Overspending
The Federal Reserve’s ability to curb price increases is limited.
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Veronique de Rugy is the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
The Federal Reserve’s ability to curb price increases is limited.
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The proposal fails every test we should apply to government subsidies.
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Raising duties on foreign goods will also raise the prices of American-made goods.
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The danger of an unreformed entitlement state is about more than interest payments crowding out the rest of the budget.
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The proposed levy would create incentives to cash out instead of growing the business.
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Legislation meant to sustain a merchant fleet instead presides over its collapse.
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By a Cato Institute count, the federal corporate portfolio now encompasses roughly 30 firms.
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We should worry about the day when this is no longer true.
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A new generation of autonomous cars offers enormous promise of a plunge in the number of traffic deaths.
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Payouts would drop for everyone up to and including widows living on survivors’ checks, yet candidates for office are silent.
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A visual treatise on political economy holds important lessons for us today.
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When a bill generates opposition from every direction, are legislators solving problems or trying to accommodate too many competing interests?
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