Financial
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Rich People Won’t Just Sit Still While You Tax Them
As New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani prepares to take office, tax-happy progressive groups are eager to let you know…
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The Daily Economy’s Top Articles of 2025
Well, 2025 has already come and gone. Hard to believe, isn’t it? It was not a great year for the…
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Fewer Kids, More Admins? The Quiet Boom in K-12 Hiring That’s Pure Politics
New research strongly suggests teachers’ unions are driving the skyrocketing administrative bloat that’s sucking resources away from classrooms. By diverting…
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Scott’s Tots, Trump Accounts, and What Washington Can Learn from ‘The Office’
Fourteen years ago this month, The Office aired the episode, Scott’s Tots, in which the well-meaning but highly delusional manager…
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If Independent Agencies Are Unconstitutional, so Is the Fed
The Supreme Court has been systematically dismantling the modern administrative state. In several decisions, the justices have pushed back against…
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What a 1980s Facial-Scar Experiment Shows About How We See Discrimination
In 1980, at Dartmouth College, psychologists Richard E. Kleck and Angelo G. Strenta set out to study how people perceive…
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Regime Uncertainty: a Drag on the American Economy
“Regime uncertainty” should be our bywords for understanding the economy of 2025. Trump’s push for “state capitalism,” ranging from tariffs…
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Evergreens and Embers: What the Solstice Teaches Us About Economic Renewal
The darkest days of the year have always asked something of us. Long before we strung electric lights and gathered…
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Santa The Economic Terrorist
President Trump has accused virtually every country, including those inhabited only by penguins of ripping us off when it comes…
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401(k)s Built America’s Wealth and Proved All the Critics Wrong
For decades, pundits have declared that Americans shouldn’t have to save for retirement in the casino of the stock market.…
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