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One of the many problems with politicians is that it seems like they're in the outrage business. Some act as if they won't be needed unless there is some extreme wrong or insufferable unfairness to address.
Last week, the Trump administration released the outline of an immigration plan meant to reshape how and which people are allowed into the United States.
President Donald Trump and his supporters often tell us that he is fundamentally a free trader.
There's an inherent conflict of interest that occurs when an agency serves as both a regulator and competitor.
The United States has been plagued with uncertainty ever since President Donald Trump started his trade disputes with many of our trading partners.
Now seems like the right time to share the good news that we're not running out of resources.
Excessive partisanship and endless acrimony are common complaints lodged against the political class.
Trade agreements have been greatly successful at lowering trade barriers around the world. But they're not without their flaws. Each agreement, in practice, tends to retain some counterproductive protectionist policies and may even export some bad policies.
As the saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.
The filing of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on whether there was collusion between President Donald Trump and the Russians to interfere with the 2016 election should put an end to speculations, accusations and outrage.
Much of my time is spent criticizing politicians for misrepresenting the impact of their policies. So, for once, I'd actually like to note an area where the Trump White House has represented the impact of its policies more accurately, and even better, than any other administration: economic growth forecasts.
The Trump administration just delivered a massive budget to Congress. A look at the numbers and the talking points drafted to defend it confirms that budgets favor politics over policy.
Last week, Oregon became the first state in the nation to adopt a mandatory statewide rent control policy.
Protectionism begets protectionism. The latest example of this sad state of affairs comes to us via the U.S. International Trade Commission.
If you drive an imported car, as I do, your vehicle may soon be declared a national security risk by the Department of Commerce. If you drive an American-assembled car, your car may also pose a threat to U.S. national security because it inevitably contains some foreign parts — which Commerce could include in its list of threats to national security.
What Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Medicare-for-all," former President Obama's Affordable Care Act and former House Speaker Paul Ryan's Medicare "premium support" model all have in common is an overemphasis on health insurance coverage — who needs it, who is eligible for it, at what level and who should pay for it (private sector vs. state governments vs. federal government).
In F.A. Hayek's 1988 book, "The Fatal Conceit," the economist explained, "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." Unfortunately, politicians of both parties today imagine they can design quite a lot by successfully managing the nation's health care, trade and energy production, among other herculean tasks.
Wisconsin Republican congressman Sean Duffy recently introduced a bill to give President Trump new powers to raise tariffs in response to actions taken by other individual countries on American goods.
We have a saying in France that goes something like this: With enough "ifs," we could put Paris in a bottle. In other words, if you assume away all the difficulties of the real world, you can achieve miracles.
Back in 2016, the Obama administration passed an overtime-pay regulation that would have required employers to pay overtime for salaried employees who earn less than $47,476 per year.
