Walter Olson In Glacier Northwest, Inc., v. Teamsters, decided today, the Supreme Court showed a good measure of consensus and civility in settling a potentially contentious issue in labor law: whether a company…
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Nearly a Third of Gen Z Favors the Government Installing Surveillance Cameras in Homes
Emily Ekins and Jordan Gygi George Orwell’s 1984 is one of our society’s most frequently referenced illustrations of what life would be like under an authoritarian government. Actual government policies…
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Romina Boccia Within mere days of the X‑day deadline for when the federal government would run out of wiggle room to keep borrowing under the statutory debt limit, the President’s…
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Norbert Michel and Nicholas Anthony This April Forbes column describes why central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are a fundamental issue related to Americans’ freedom and much bigger than just politics. It…
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Brookings Paper Is Not Concrete Evidence That a “Hard Landing” of the Economy Is Inevitable
Norbert Michel and Jai Kedia Last week at Brookings, Ben Bernanke, former Fed chair, and Olivier Blanchard, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, released an empirical study of…
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Chris Edwards Congress is considering the Biden‐McCarthy debt‐reduction deal. The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 would reduce deficits by $1.5 trillion over the coming decade. The reduction would be a start…
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Conflict Over a “Citi Bike” Illustrates Popularity of a New Mobility Alternative
Marc Joffe In early May, a video showing a physician’s assistant and a group of teenagers arguing over a shared e‑bike in Manhattan went viral. The video gave rise to conflicting narratives about race…
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David J. Bier Student visas are the primary jumping‐off point for most high‐skilled immigration to the United States. Immigrants study at America’s elite universities and then find jobs here when…
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Will the Precautionary FDA Slow‐Walk Approval of a Promising New Gene Therapy?
Jeffrey A. Singer Gene therapy researchers recently reported an encouraging development that can bring new hope to people at risk for cardiovascular disease. But how long will Americans have to…
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Nicholas Anthony As more people have become aware of the risks of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), more people have become confused between CBDCs provided by the government and cryptocurrencies…