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Making Sense of Conservative Economics

1/8/2025 • Drew Holden

Trump’s anti-bureaucracy energy should be directed at regulation as well as waste

12/19/2024 • Aaron M. Renn

It isn’t just about criminal punishments and presidential pardons

12/17/2024 • Patrick T. Brown

The old GOP dictated Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. His new coalition should shape its future.

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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3/10/2025 • Oren Cass

Adam Smith’s capitalism demands constraints on markets, not blind faith in them.

2/23/2025 • Oren Cass

There isn’t an ‘easy button’ for everything.

2/20/2025 • Daniel Kishi

The first Trump administration’s USMCA deal needs to be just the opening salvo in our new trade dynamic.

2/13/2025 • Oren Cass

The Right’s “groups” could destroy the Trump agenda.

2/5/2025 • Oren Cass

Six reactions to the new administration’s aggressive trade diplomacy.

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