Trump Administration
Special Interests Hide Behind Regulatory Myths
Three myths about federal regulation help prevent much of the public, and many experts, from realizing how many regulations serve to promote special interests.
Years...
Police Stops of Black Drivers Increase Following Trump Rallies, New Study Suggests
A new study looks into how Trump's 2016 presidential campaign affected police behavior toward Black Americans and finds that the probability that a Black...
How to Save 40 percent of the Payroll Protection Program’s Costs
Thanks to the loan program part of the CARES Act, small businesses can receive up to 2.5 times their monthly payroll, regardless of how much...
Election Timetabling Is Not the Role of Judges
As wrong as it is that the Wisconsin elections were held under patently unsafe conditions, it is not the place of the courts to...
How Covid-19 Infected Global Financial Markets: a Webinar
Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier and Torsten Slok, Chief Economist for Deutsche Bank Securities, discuss what happened during Wall Street's worst week since the 2008...
How to Save American Middle-Sized Businesses from the Coronavirus Supply-Chain Crisis
Congress passed an $8.3 billion spending bill to address the coronavirus epidemic, but the bill will not protect small companies. Republican Senator Marco Rubio put forward...
The SEC’s Shareholder Voting Reform Runs Counter to Attempts at Democratizing Corporate America
The SEC should drop its proposed changes or modify them so that they are less onerous and less damaging to the rights of shareholders...
The Most Persistent of All Zombie Ideas: That Taxing the Wealthy Is Destructive to the Economy
Economics can’t tell you what values to have. It can, however, shed light on what to expect from policy that reflects any particular set...
Emmanuel Saez: Saying Inequality Has Not Increased in the US "the Equivalent of Being a Climate Change Denier”
In an interview with ProMarket ahead of his upcoming Stigler Center visit this week, UC Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez discussed the impact of the...
Why the US Government Buys Overpriced Services From McKinsey
The Industrial Funding Fee pays $3 million a year for a 23-year old McKinsey employee instead of hiring an experienced person directly to do...
