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Econception on the Looming 2025 Budget Mess

Paul Winfree and I discuss the coincidence of budgetary deadlines that will make 2025 a messy year for fiscal policy.

The Capitol Building at sunrise in Washington, D.C., November 17, 2008

Question for the Columbia Occupiers

What happens when the school year is over?

A 32-Hour Work Week for Your Workers, Not Mine

Senator Bernie Sanders and United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain know that their idea is silly.

Senator Bernie Sanders gestures as he speaks to the crowd as United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain and UAW Region 1 Director LaShawn English listen during a rally in Detroit, Mich., September 15, 2023.
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Same Number of House GOP Supported Ukraine Aid in September as in April

After months of arguing between pro-Ukraine and anti-Ukraine groups, both sides persuaded a decent number of Republicans to switch their votes, but the total ended up in the same spot.

Ukrainian national flags flutter in front of a heavily damaged apartment building in Orikhiv, Ukraine, February 28, 2024.

Don’t Devalue the Dollar, Pence Group Says

Republicans should offer tax reforms to increase incentives to save and invest and credible plans to cut the deficit.

Former vice president Mike Pence stands at the podium after announcing he will discontinue his presidential campaign, during the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Summit in Las Vegas, Nev., October 28, 2023.

Building Trades Unions Endorse Biden

Republicans would be wise to accept unions for what they are: part of the progressive movement.

President Joe Biden and North America’s Building Trades Unions president Sean McGarvey shake hands at a conference held by the North America's Building Trades Unions at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., April 24, 2024.

Vernon Smith on Adam Smith

A modern student writes about the pioneering Scottish philosopher and economist.

Statue of Adam Smith in Edinburgh, Scotland

More Media Cheerleading for Unions after VW Tennessee Vote

We’re supposed to believe that a win for the UAW is a win for workers and indicative of a national trend in favor of union membership. But the evidence is still lacking for both of those propositions.

President of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) Shawn Fain signs a placard at a watch party in Chattanooga, Tenn., April 2024.

The Market Will Make Sure Caitlin Clark Gets Paid a Lot

Don’t let the WNBA’s union pay scale get you down.

Iowa Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark (22) dribbles past Connecticut Huskies guard Nika Muhl (10) in the semifinals of the Final Four of the womens 2024 NCAA Tournament at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, Ohio, April 5, 2024.

The Bees Are Fine

The bee-population collapse was essentially solved in 2015. And market demand solved it.

A person points at a bee hive at Miller Honey Farms in Gackle, N.D., July 30, 2021.

More Evidence That Organized Labor Is Progressivism, and Progressivism Is Organized Labor

Even supposedly less political, ‘blue-collar’ unions regularly give big bucks to progressive causes.

United Auto Workers from Louisville, Ky., rally in support of striking UAW members in Detroit, Mich., September 15, 2023.

Railroads Oppose Union-Backed Rule Regarding Crew Sizes

The Federal Railroad Administration’s years-long regulatory adventure into mandating the crew sizes of freight trains continues.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe trains at a rail yard in Cicero, Illinois, in 2009.

Econception with Samuel Gregg on Industrial Policy

On the most recent episode of Econception, my podcast with the American Institute for Economic Research, I talked to Samuel Gregg about industrial policy.

Assembly line at the General Motors manufacturing plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., August 22, 2019.

A Sampler of Tax Day Commentary

Today is Tax Day, the holiday for publishing tax-related commentary.

The Connection between CHIPS and Solyndra Is Stronger Than You Might Think

13 years after the government wasted $500 million of the Solyndra boondoggle, the federal government is giving more than ten times as much to a company led by Solyndra’s former CEO.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a visit to TSMC AZ's first semiconductor fabrication plant in Phoenix, Ariz., December 6, 2022.

Another Real Pink Tax

Tariffs on women’s clothes are, on average, higher than tariffs on men’s clothes.

A customer shops at the TU clothing store inside a Sainsbury’s supermarket in Richmond, West London, February 21, 2024.

Elite Colleges Are Overrated

Money isn’t everything, but it is something.

People walk past Columbia University in New York City, October 30, 2023.

So Now J. D. Vance Cares about U.S. Steel Shareholders

J. D. Vance vs. J. D. Vance.

Senator J. D. Vance (R., Ohio) speaks during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., March 22, 2023.

Russians Are Persecuting Ukrainian Baptists, Church Leaders Tell Speaker Johnson

The reminder appears necessary in light of comments by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who claims that Russia is ‘protecting’ Christians.

A member of the archcathedral of St. John the Baptist church community prays during the church service, near the Polish-Ukrainian border as people flee the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Przemysl, Poland, March 13, 2022.

A Breakdown of the Biden Administration’s Student-Debt Plans

Debts should be repaid by the people who borrowed the money, not taxpayers. But this is an election year, so different rules apply.

President Joe Biden speaks as he announces a new plan for federal student loan relief during a visit to Madison Area Technical College Truax Campus in Madison, Wis., April 8, 2024.

The Wrong Reason to Kill a Stadium Project

At George Mason University, the whiners won.

Pro-Sports, Anti–Stadium Subsidies

Stadium subsidies are a bad deal for taxpayers.

Baseball fans stand during the national anthem before a game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Md., April 4, 2016.

Econception on How Trade Policy Is Made

A discussion about trade policy and who wins exemptions, protectionism for steel, and decentralized planning.

Trucks offload containers from ship at the port of Los Angeles Calif., July 16, 2018.
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