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

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."
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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?"
greatcapitalism.substack.com/p/interview-...

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...

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

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"
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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
greatcapitalism.substack.com/p/perverse-i...

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-...

YouTube video by Competitive Enterprise Institute China’s Economy and the U.S. with Derek Scissors

New interview for Episode 155 of the Free the Economy podcast, "China’s Economy and the U.S. with Derek Scissors" of AEI & China Beige Book: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CHo...

I'm afraid we're all rather spoiled, here on the English Riviera.

Scapegoating investors may be politically satisfying, as is often the case. It also distracts from the actual binding constraint: America doesn’t build enough homes, people! Fix that, and Wall Street’s role will shrink on its own: www.aei.org/economics/am...

Great Capitalism Comes to Substack Welcome to Great Capitalism, my first step into the Substack ecosystem and the latest iteration of many years of policy analysis and advocacy from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and our Ce...

Substack has finally gone mainstream and respectable (I have joined). My new account is called Great Capitalism, and my launch post is here: greatcapitalism.substack.com/p/great-capi...

Climate Policy Endangerment with Marlo Lewis, Jr. - Free The Economy This week we talk about tariff refunds, Affordable Care Act subsidies, Ryan Young’s Books of the Year for 2025, and how Santa landed on Trump’s naughty list. Our guest this week is Marlo Lewis, Jr., s...

Episode 154 of Free the Economy is here. This week we talk about tariffs, ACA subsidies, Books of the Year, and how Santa landed on Trump’s naughty list. Our guest is Marlo Lewis. We talk about the EPA’s “endangerment finding” and the future of climate policy: www.buzzsprout.com/2096503/epis...

YouTube video by National Gallery of Art Talks David Gariff on the Christmas Story in Art

Great lecture on the Christmas story in Western art: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zh4...

Consumer Finance and Privacy with James Erwin - Free The Economy This week we talk about the decline of electric vehicles, liberation for home appliances, the failure of tariffs to deliver new jobs, and the rise of climate realism. Our guest this week is James Erwi...

Episode 153 of the Free the Economy podcast is here! We talk about electric vehicles, home appliances, the failure of tariffs, & the rise of climate realism. Our guest this week is James Erwin, who tells us about what the CFPB is doing wrt bank privacy:
www.buzzsprout.com/2096503/epis...

A lot of otherwise confusing relationship configurations seem to be built off of asexual people not IDing as such. My theory, fwiw, is that a non-trivial portion of the male incel world is actually asexual young men not being able to deal w/ being ace and resorting to performative misogyny instead.

It's interesting, btw, how the National Park Service describes the memorial today. They say that "his methods gained popularity in Europe and the United States" (true) but also that "Modern medical consensus holds that homeopathic remedies have no demonstrated efficacy." www.nps.gov/places/000/d...

I think about this issue every time I walk past Massachusetts & Rhode Island Aves in D.C., where there's a monument to Samuel Hahnemann, the creator of homeopathy. His system was popular and influential when the memorial was created in 1900. (Its dedication was attended by President McKinley.)

Breakneck: Dan Wang Explores the Strange Symmetry of US and China | The Daily Economy Dan Wang explores how the United States and China, while rivals in power, share surprising similarities that shape their economies, politics, and global inf ...

From my latest book review for AIER: "Americans, both as citizens and policymakers, will need to step up to compete with the machinations of the Communist mandarins in Beijing. We should, however, be careful not to copy their worst policies along the way." thedailyeconomy.org/article/brea...

YouTube video by Competitive Enterprise Institute Consumer Finance and Privacy with James Erwin

Did you know that government regulators require your bank to share your private financial data with other companies without your knowledge or consent? Find out more in my interview with ATR's James Erwin for Episode 153 of the Free the Economy podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4-...

The Business of America with Neil Bradley - Free The Economy This week we talk about the economic impact of net-zero policies in blue states and Europe, top targets for environmental policy reform in 2026, a new report on digital debanking from Congress, and wh...

Here's the whole audio episode, btw, including my discussion of net-zero policies in blue states (and Europe), targets for environmental policy reform in 2026, a new report on digital de-banking, and why 38% of Stanford students are claiming to be disabled: www.buzzsprout.com/2096503/epis...