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  • June 19, 2017
    Blog
    Brexit Talks Get Underway
    Brexit Talks Get Underway
    … background. There is still a long way to go before we get to the point of the UK negotiating free trade deals of its own. But once we do get there, its trade policy team is in pretty good hands.
    By Simon Lester
  • June 18, 2017
    Blog
    "Everyone Is Terrible"
    “Everyone Is Terrible”
    … sentences, for the manufacture and distribution of these drugs. Hence my friend’s assessment that “everyone” is terrible (on drug policy). This is an important point. Much discussion assumes liberals are more libertarian‐​leaning on drug policy than conservatives. This …
    By Jeffrey Miron
  • June 14, 2017
    CNBC.com
    Here’s What the Fed Just Signaled about the Rest of 2017
    … the rest of 2017 we are looking at likely no further rate hikes and shift in the focus of monetary policy to the size of the Fed’s balance sheet. There are policy reasons for this (e.g., Social Security …
    By Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr.
  • June 14, 2017
    Blog
    Emoluments Lawsuits Are a Monumental Distraction
    Emoluments Lawsuits Are a Monumental Distraction
    … the first place, as distinct from those ambassadors and other officials. In short, while scholars can disagree on legal and policy grounds about many of the Trump administration’s doings — from the travel ban, to renegotiating trade treaties, to various …
    By Ilya Shapiro
  • June 13, 2017
    Blog
    Who Is Trump Trying to Help on Cuba?
    Who Is Trump Trying to Help on Cuba?
    According to media reports, President Trump is expected to announce on Friday that his administration will revert some of President Obama’s policies toward Cuba. In particular, it looks like Trump will impose new restrictions on travel, as well as …
    By Juan Carlos Hidalgo
  • June 13, 2017
    Inside Sources
    Pittsburgh or Paris?
    … want policy that puts American interests first. If Trump’s opponents are smart, they will pass up the chance to fight a pointless “Pittsburgh or Paris?” battle and engage with the question of whether his policies will help or hurt.
    By Walter Olson
  • June 9, 2017
    Blog
    Trade-Offs in the Middle East
    Trade-Offs in the Middle East
    … scale back the scope of its foreign policy. But this will come at the cost of other U.S. foreign policy objectives in the region. As the President will eventually learn, in foreign policy, you really can’t always get …
    By Emma Ashford
  • Regulation
    Vol. 40 No. 2
    Summer 2017
    Summer 2017
    For roughly 30 years, in the last decade of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th, a national movement sought to use the law to eliminate Chinese restaurants from the United States. In the Summer 2017 issue of Regulation, Gabriel J. Chin and John Ormonde look back on this lost chapter in the history of U.S. racial regulation, and consider its relevance to immigration policy today.
  • June 7, 2017
    Blog
    Trump's No Good Very Bad Arms Deal
    Trump’s No Good Very Bad Arms Deal
    … the U.S. It will certainly help the bottom line of a handful of defense companies. But from a foreign policy and national security perspective, the case against selling weapons to Saudi Arabia is a powerful one for many reasons …
    By A. Trevor Thrall
  • June 5, 2017
    CapX
    Britain’s Economically Illiterate Election
    Economics is not the most important thing in life, and often not in public policy. But it is the area of activity where governments most frequently mess up, with disastrous consequences for living standards. So at a time when Britain …
    By Ryan Bourne
  • June 1, 2017
    Memphis Commercial Appeal
    Restoring Justice to all in Tennessee
    … Lee, who decided that the state “can’t keep doing the same thing and hoping for a different result.” State policymakers have let the indigent defense problem fester long enough. It’s time to get on with the job of …
    By Tim Lynch
  • June 1, 2017
    Blog
    IOER and Banks' Demand for Reserves, Yet Again
    IOER and Banks’ Demand for Reserves, Yet Again
    Reducing the supply of reserves while doing nothing to reduce banks’ demand for them is a recipe for demand-driven deflation, which is a monetary policy no-no.
    By George Selgin
  • May 25, 2017
    Washington Examiner
    Is Trump’s Saudi Arms Deal the Worst Arms Deal Ever?
    Trump’s decision to sell billions of dollars of advanced weaponry to a nation with one of the world’s worst records on human rights is not an example of foreign policy realism—it is an abdication of American principles.
    By A. Trevor Thrall
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