INTERVIEW: What’s Wrong with Congress with Kevin Kosar Can We Make Legislating Great Again?

INTERVIEW: What’s Wrong with Congress with Kevin Kosar
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Heated Rivalry Season 3 is gonna be 🔥

This should be the basis for a new version of the song Bitch by Meredith Brooks.

At Washington National Cathedral for The Tallis Scholars concert "Miracles & Mysteries."

Best Economic Policy Research and Analysis Q1 2026 Finance, Climate, Tech, and More

Best Economic Policy Research and Analysis Q1 2026:
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INTERVIEW: Social Mobility in the 50 States with Justin Callais What Can New York Learn from Wyoming and Montana?

INTERVIEW: Social Mobility in the 50 States with Justin Callais
What Can New York Learn from Wyoming and Montana?
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Kids, Big Tech, and the First Amendment with Jessica Melugin YouTube video by Competitive Enterprise Institute

Thanks to my CEI colleague Jessica Melugin for joining me on Episode 168 of the Free The Economy podcast. We talk about social media platforms, keeping kids safe online, why we shouldn’t be following Europe’s example on tech regulation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwKE...

REVIEW: The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China China is becoming more authoritarian, not less

New book review:

INTERVIEW: The Meaning of GDP with Brian Albrecht Do we need a new dashboard (or Busy Box) of alternate measures?

INTERVIEW: The Meaning of GDP with Brian Albrecht
Do we need a new dashboard (or Busy Box) of alternate measures? greatcapitalism.substack.com/p/interview-...

Remembering Brian Doherty (1968–2026) A true modern intellectual

Remembering Brian Doherty (1968–2026), a true modern intellectual: greatcapitalism.substack.com/p/rememberin...

Regulating Finance with James Copland - Free The Economy This week we cover the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, fighting fraud in broadband deployment, and cutting red tape to boost housing affordability. Our guest this week is James Co...

This week on the Free the Economy podcast we cover Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, fraud in broadband deployment, and housing affordability. Our guest this week is James Copland of the Manhattan Institute. We talk about the future of financial regulation: www.buzzsprout.com/2096503/epis...

Investing in the Mixed Economy: Lessons from Paris That Feeling When Every Profit Opportunity Has a Tax, Subsidy, or Tariff Angle

Investing in the Mixed Economy: Lessons from Paris
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'Violent Saviors': William Easterly's Book on Imperialism and Conquest | The Daily Economy William Easterly traces three centuries of Western expansion, examining the moral and political justifications used to dominate other peoples.

William Easterly's latest book "Violent Saviors" is a history of colonialism, but also a love letter to Adam Smith and his legacy of humane liberalism. My review for AIER: thedailyeconomy.org/article/viol...

The Impact of Trump’s Trade War with Alex Durante YouTube video by Competitive Enterprise Institute

My guest for Episode 162 of Free the Economy is Alex Durante of the Tax Foundation. We discuss the impact of Trump tariff policy on manufacturing, economic growth, and jobs. Timely! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH2c... (2/2)

The Impact of Trump’s Trade War with Alex Durante - Free The Economy This week we cover the sneaky federal cause of high housing prices, record outflows from ESG investment funds, and why YouTube and Instagram shouldn’t be legally liable for the emotional problems of a...

Episode 162 of Free the Economy is here! This week we cover the sneaky (federal) cause of high housing prices, record outflows from ESG investment funds, and why YouTube and Instagram shouldn’t be legally liable for the emotional problems of teenagers: www.buzzsprout.com/2096503/epis... (1/2)

President Trump's use of sweeping "emergency" powers to impose tariffs is unlawful, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday.

Read more: reason.com/2026/02/20/t...

SCOTUS, just now: "...we hold that IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs."
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INTERVIEW: Total Boomer Luxury Communism with Russ Greene Should We Be Taxing Young Adults to Pay for Elder Amenities?

INTERVIEW: Total Boomer Luxury Communism with Russ Greene. "Should We Be Taxing Young Adults to Pay for Elder Amenities?"
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New from me on Substack: The American Dream is not dead, podcasting edition. greatcapitalism.substack.com/p/podcasting...

Free the Economy podcast: The meaning of GDP with Brian Albrecht - Competitive Enterprise Institute In this week’s episode we talk about the last 50 years of regulatory reform, a new study on climate adaptation, and reforms to Kentucky’s property tax system. Our guest this week is Brian Albrecht, ch...

Here's our blog post summary for Episode 159 of the Free the Economy podcast, with links to all of the stories we covered (3/3): cei.org/blog/free-th...

The Meaning of GDP with Brian Albrecht YouTube video by Competitive Enterprise Institute

Our guest for Episode 159 is Brian Albrecht, chief economist of the International Center for Law and Economics. We talk about economic growth, happiness, statistics, and the meaning of gross domestic product, or GDP (2/3): www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIlJ...

The Meaning of GDP with Brian Albrecht - Free The Economy This week we talk about the last 50 years of regulatory reform, a new study on climate adaptation, and reforms to Kentucky’s property tax system. Our guest this week is Brian Albrecht, chief economist...

This week on Episode 159 of the Free the Economy podcast we talk about the last 50 years of regulatory reform, a new study on climate adaptation, and reforms to Kentucky’s property tax system (1/3): www.buzzsprout.com/2096503/epis...

How the SPEED Act can deliver on permitting reform - FREOPP The Senate has the opportunity to craft bipartisan support for power plants, transmission lines, and other projects that can help meet rising energy demand.

Also, see Grant Dever's recent FREOPP blog post, "How the SPEED Act can deliver on permitting reform" here: freopp.org/oppblog/how-...

Review of "FDR: A New Political Life" by David Beito Roosevelt's reputation as one of the Great Presidents continues to slide

New at Substack, I review the book "FDR: A New Political Life" by historian David Beito. Short version: Roosevelt had a lot more failings and scandals than most textbooks will tell you about! greatcapitalism.substack.com/p/review-of-...

Thanks to my insightful friend Grant Dever of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity for joining the Free the Economy podcast for Episode 158! We talk about energy, abundance, permitting, affordability, and why Congress should pass the SPEED Act: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2qy...

INTERVIEW: China’s Economy and the U.S. with Derek Scissors.
The future of tariffs, Taiwan, and the flow of rare earth minerals: greatcapitalism.substack.com/p/interview-...

A back-of-envelope evaluation of national tax rates and freedom levels Last month I spoke with Vanessa Williamson of the Brookings Institution, who made the case for high taxes so governments respond to citizens' needs. She said authoritarians prefer low taxes and less i...

Thanks to Ross Kerber of Reuters Sustainable Finance for quoting me in his recent story:
"A back-of-envelope evaluation of national tax rates and freedom levels"
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Younger workers are getting squeezed to finance gold-plated retirements for people 65+ in America today. Public policy expert Russ Greene joins the Free the Economy podcast to explain Total Boomer Luxury Communism: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDBa...

Perverse Incentives of Gas Mileage Regulations CAFE Standards Were Supposed to Save Consumers Money at the Pump But Created a Litany of Second-Order Problems

Perverse Incentives of Gas Mileage Regulations:
CAFE standards were supposed to save consumers money at the pump but created a litany of second-order problems
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INTERVIEW: Climate Policy Endangerment with Marlo Lewis, Jr. A veteran climate policy skeptic explains his take on Obama, Trump, and the EPA

I recently had the opportunity to interview my longtime Competitive Enterprise Institute colleague Marlo Lewis, Jr. about new developments in climate policy, and we covered a lot of interesting territory: greatcapitalism.substack.com/p/interview-...