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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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Oren speaks on a panel about economic policy in Trump’s second term and more with Jason Furman, Richard Burkhauser, and Kimberly Clausing.
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And creative paths forward like, say, reversing Citizens United…
A roundup from Oren Cass about what you should be reading from around the web over the last week to better understand America.
On the first night of the Democratic National Convention, six labor leaders took the stage to endorse the party’s nominee. “Kamala Harris will keep fighting for workers,” promised the general president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America. The Republicans’ vision, said the president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., is “a worker’s nightmare.” Certainly, they are right about Read more…
A rescue mission for common sense from the quagmire of free-trade economics
We should stop giving favorable tax treatment to capital gains earned boosting our adversaries
