The Real Story Behind America’s “Harmless” Deficits The economists’ case in Learning Resources v. Trump gets the causality wrong. When a group of economists filed an amicus brief in Learning ...
The Boston Fed’s Weird Theory of Inflation The Federal Reserve has long maintained that keeping inflation expectations “anchored” is crucial to controlling actual inflation. The doctrine sounds tidy: so long ...
Sorry, Tarifflationistas. The Data Just Proved You Wrong For months, critics of President Trump’s tariff strategy have warned of an inevitable wave of inflation. That wave turned out to be ...
Another Federal Reserve Tarifflation Study Falls Apart Under Scrutiny The St. Louis Federal Reserve released a study last week claiming that President Trump’s 2025 tariffs have added roughly 0.5 percentage ...
Creatively Destroying Dependency on China Welcome to another Friday. This is our weekly wrap of the economics news. Since the last time it was Friday, China has reminded the world ...
A Judge Blocks Trump’s Shutdown Cuts and Invites a Constitutional Showdown A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from proceeding with mass layoffs of federal employees during the ...
Nobel Prize Vindicates Economic Nationalism, Part III: When Creative Destruction Fails Today is the third and final part in our series exploring the theories of Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and ...
Nobel Prize Vindicates Economic Nationalism, Part II: Why China’s Theft Kills Innovation In Monday’s Breitbart Business Digest, we examined how Joel Mokyr’s Nobel Prize-winning research shows that political fragmentation and ...
The Sovereignty of Innovation and the Innovation of Sovereignty The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics is a major milestone for the economic nationalism that fueled the election of Donald Trump ...
China vs. the U.S.: Permanent Normalized Trade Regret Welcome back to Friday. This is our weekly wrap-up of news about the economy, the ongoing collapse of expert authority, and epochal ...
