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Making Sense of Conservative Economics
Trump’s anti-bureaucracy energy should be directed at regulation as well as waste
It isn’t just about criminal punishments and presidential pardons
The old GOP dictated Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. His new coalition should shape its future.
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A small but growing cadre of pro-worker conservatives is scrambling that playing field.
Political economy has no inviolable truths. Anything that economists or political scientists claim as inviolable truth, then, is incomplete—it may hold within the narrow confines of their analysis, but it will not hold in reality over the long run.
In November, Harvard Business School hosted a debate between Oren Cass and Katherine Tai on one side, and Larry Summers and Robert Lawrence on the other, over the question: Should the United States shift from the free trade approach it has supported since World War II in favor of higher tariffs? Cass and Tai won Read more…
It’s bonus season on Wall Street, and a record-setting 2025 is yielding bigger paychecks than ever for America’s investment bankers, thanks to their hard work doing, well, what exactly?
Matthew Rose, an Opinion editorial director, hosted an online conversation with three contributing Opinion writers (Oren Cass, Natasha Sarin, and Jason Forman) about the Federal Reserve. Matthew Rose: After months of trailers and teases, we have President Trump’s nominee to run the Federal Reserve. If you were betting it would be a man called Kevin, congratulations! Read more…
