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Do We Still Really Need the Bureau of Labor Statistics?

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Economic Dynamism
Aug 27, 2025
Creating Affordable Housing Requires Just One Simple Legislative Change

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Economic Dynamism
Aug 28, 2025
Will California Reform Its Broken Housing Policies?

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Economic Dynamism
Aug 26, 2025
Reindustrialization Doesn’t Mean Romanticizing the Past—It Means Facing Hard Truths

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Economic Dynamism
Aug 26, 2025
The Causal Effect of News on Inflation Expectations

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Economic Dynamism
Aug 22, 2025
The Rise of Inflation Targeting

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Economic Dynamism
Aug 11, 2025
Can Tariffs Replace Income Taxes?

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Economic Dynamism
Aug 22, 2025
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Do We Still Really Need the Bureau of Labor Statistics?

It is time for the monthly story of the labor market to be told more clearly, and more reliably, through data from other sources.

G. Dirk Mateer
Economic Dynamism
Aug 27, 2025

The Causal Effect of News on Inflation Expectations

This paper studies the response of household inflation expectations to television news coverage of inflation.

Carola Binder, Pascal Frank, Jane M. Ryngaert
Economic Dynamism
Aug 22, 2025

Can Tariffs Replace Income Taxes?

We need to deal in reality instead of wishful thinking.

Richard M. Reinsch II
Economic Dynamism
Aug 22, 2025

The Rise of Inflation Targeting

This paper discusses the interactions between politics and economic ideas leading to the adoption of inflation targeting in the United States.

Carola Binder
Economic Dynamism
Aug 11, 2025

How We Built the Arsenal of Democracy

Arthur Herman
Economic Dynamism
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The $130 Billion Train That Couldn’t

Joel Kotkin
Economic Dynamism
Jul 21, 2025

AI and the Future of Society and Economy

Joel Kotkin, Marshall Toplansky
Economic Dynamism
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Students from China Are Essential for America

Arthur Herman, Christopher Monroe
Economic Dynamism
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Firm Investment and the User Cost of Capital: New U.S. Corporate Tax Reform Evidence

Jonathan S. Hartley, Kevin A. Hassett, Joshua D. Rauh
Economic Dynamism
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Automated Detection of Emotion in Central Bank Communication: A Warning

Carola Binder, Nicole Baerg
Economic Dynamism
Jul 1, 2025
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The Causal Effect of News on Inflation Expectations

Carola Binder, Pascal Frank, Jane M. Ryngaert
Economic Dynamism
Aug 22, 2025

The Rise of Inflation Targeting

Carola Binder
Economic Dynamism
Aug 11, 2025

AI and the Future of Society and Economy

Joel Kotkin, Marshall Toplansky
Economic Dynamism
Jul 17, 2025

Automated Detection of Emotion in Central Bank Communication: A Warning

Carola Binder, Nicole Baerg
Economic Dynamism
Jul 1, 2025

Defending Technological Dynamism & the Freedom to Innovate in the Age of AI

Adam Thierer
Economic Dynamism
Jun 6, 2025

Partisan Trust in the Federal Reserve

Carola Binder, Cody Couture, Abhiprerna Smit
Economic Dynamism
Apr 22, 2025
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Do We Still Really Need the Bureau of Labor Statistics?

G. Dirk Mateer
Economic Dynamism
Aug 27, 2025

Can Tariffs Replace Income Taxes?

Richard M. Reinsch II
Economic Dynamism
Aug 22, 2025

How We Built the Arsenal of Democracy

Arthur Herman
Economic Dynamism
Jul 25, 2025

The $130 Billion Train That Couldn’t

Joel Kotkin
Economic Dynamism
Jul 21, 2025

Students from China Are Essential for America

Arthur Herman, Christopher Monroe
Economic Dynamism
Jul 8, 2025

Firm Investment and the User Cost of Capital: New U.S. Corporate Tax Reform Evidence

Jonathan S. Hartley, Kevin A. Hassett, Joshua D. Rauh
Economic Dynamism
Jul 7, 2025
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Trump’s Tariff-for-Income-Tax Swap

Trump’s Tariff-for-Income-Tax Swap

Economic Dynamism
Aug 21, 2025
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Why the Damage to Fed Independence May Have Already Been Done

Why the Damage to Fed Independence May Have Already Been Done

Economic Dynamism
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Richard Epstein: Law and Economics of Public Sector Unions

Richard Epstein: Law and Economics of Public Sector Unions

Economic Dynamism
Jun 19, 2025
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Can the U.S. Defense Industrial Base Meet Today’s Challenges?

Can the U.S. Defense Industrial Base Meet Today’s Challenges?

Economic Dynamism
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Virginia Postrel and Adam Thierer on Big Trends and Big Ideas in Dynamism

Virginia Postrel and Adam Thierer on Big Trends and Big Ideas in Dynamism

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