Category Archives: Economics

These 9 States Are Cutting Income Taxes to Boost Their Recovery

Forget “stimulus” spending, these states are showing us a way local governments can actually boost [...]

Does Biden deserve credit for job gains?

Biden and his advisors have no idea how they got to where they are and [...]

Tax Migration – Where’s Your State?

By Dan Mitchell The bad news is that federalism has declined in the United States as politicians in [...]

Well that’s freaking embarrassing: $2+ Trillion ‘Jobs Plan’ Will REDUCE ⬇︎ Employment

President Biden has touted his proposed $2+ trillion in “infrastructure” spending, which also includes all [...]

Biden’s Failure on Trade

by Dan Mitchell Biden campaigned for higher taxes and a bigger welfare state, so I haven’t been surprised by [...]

U.S. Lumber Duties Are More Than Just a Rate

By Scott Lincicome, CATO.  Recently, a few journalists and (unsurprisingly) the U.S. lumber industry have downplayed U.S. [...]

US Businesses Are Closing Because They Can’t Find Anyone to Work. Here’s Why

For the last 10 years, Larry and Roxane Maggio ran a deli—Ludovico’s—in downtown Haddonfield, a [...]

Have you ever seen a more boring speech? | A.F. Branco

Branco is our favorite cartoon satirist. We run him all the time with his permission. [...]

Why Your Grocery Bills Are Going Up (And Are Only Expected to Get Bigger)

It’s official: food inflation has arrived. Food prices soared 3.9 percent in 2020, the Department [...]

There is No Such Thing as Trickle-Down Economics

The point is not to transfer wealth up and down but rather to create universal [...]