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March 14, 2025
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Egg Prices Don’t Need to Be Investigated—It’s Just Supply and Demand
Egg prices have skyrocketed, but before jumping to conclusions about market manipulation, the reality is simple: It’s supply and demand, with avian flu decimating the egg-laying chicken population and inelastic consumer demand driving prices even higher.
By Jeremy Horpedahl
March 14, 2025
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Tariffs, Uncertainty, and Small Businesses
Thanks to Trump’s tariff policies, the bloom appears to be off the rose with the small business community.
By Tad DeHaven
March 14, 2025
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Trump’s New Immigration Ban: An Arbitrary, Discriminatory Legal Immigration Rewrite
A system banning people based on their nationality is the opposite of merit-based.
By David J. Bier
March 14, 2025
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Modern Libertarianism Author: “It’s the Ideas’ Victories That Are Important—Did the Idea Win?”
“It’s the ideas’ victories that are important,” Doherty said, and not so much the personalities involved.
By Michael Chapman
March 14, 2025
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Government Funding Bill Continues Irresponsible Status Quo as Tariffs Wreak Havoc
Both Republicans and Democrats took the easy way out: Republicans by locking in Biden-era spending levels, and Democrats by choosing to go along to avoid putting the executive Office of Management and Budget in charge of determining which government functions and personnel are ‘essential.’
By Romina Boccia
March 14, 2025
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MedPAC Identifies Medicare Advantage Pricing Errors, Savings Opportunities
Surely, Republicans can cut Medicare subsidies for gym memberships and pet care.
By Michael F. Cannon
March 14, 2025
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The Crypto Industry Should Not Seek to Punish Its Competition
Giving more power to regulators to dictate terms in the payments sector will not end well for crypto firms. Eventually, regulators will restrict them at the expense of other groups.
By Norbert Michel
March 14, 2025
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Friday Feature: Spyrja Academy
At microschools, like Spyrja Academy, teachers have the flexibility and autonomy to customize students’ learning paths by working with experts from throughout the community.
By Colleen Hroncich
March 14, 2025
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Claude AI Thinks Marco Rubio Is Apparently Breaking The Law
In my opinion, Claude’s analysis should prompt congressional and judicial attention to Secretary Rubio’s announcement.
By Patrick G. Eddington
March 13, 2025
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Trump Treasury Expands Financial Surveillance
It was wrong when the Biden administration tried to surveil bank accounts with just $600 in activity, and it is wrong now that the Trump administration is surveilling as little as $200 in activity.
By Nicholas Anthony
March 13, 2025
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The Case for Repealing the Corporate SALT Deduction
In the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Congress placed a $10,000 limit on the amount of state and local taxes, such as income and property taxes, that any individual or family can deduct from their federal taxable income. The 2017 limits did not apply to business entity–level taxes. As Congress assembles the tax package to extend and improve the 2017 tax cuts, it should include new reforms that raise revenue to offset the proposed tax cuts. One reform being considered is limiting corporate state and local tax deductions by extending the limits placed on individuals to businesses.
By Adam N. Michel
March 13, 2025
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Today at 2:00 PM ET: Discussing the Dangers of the Current Policy Baseline Gimmick
While the House budget resolution includes at least some spending cuts to partially offset the deficit impact, the Senate wants to take the easy way out—using a current policy baseline and ignoring the trillions the TCJA extension would add to the debt without offsets.
By Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia
March 13, 2025
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The American Right Is Abandoning Mises
Among the most damaging changes Trumpism has wrought on conservatism has been the rejection of core elements of Mises’ thought—the parts that undermined the idea that a “national interest” should supersede individual choice and freedom in markets.
By Brian Doherty
March 12, 2025
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Petty Grievances, Erosion of the Rule of Law and Bad Economics: More Steel and Aluminum Tariffs on the Horizon
Section 232 is a serious statute meant to be used sparingly and with extreme caution, not a plaything to settle petty grievances. Using it as such marks another episode in an increasingly long line of shameful abuses by the Trump administration and a further erosion of the rule of law in US trade policy.
By Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon
March 12, 2025
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Politically Motivated Deportations: The Mahmoud Khalil Test Case
To date, federal officials have produced no documentary evidence that Khalil’s conduct has involved anything other than the political advocacy the nation’s highest court has said is First Amendment-protected speech.
By Patrick G. Eddington