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FCC Moves Forward With ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules
As the five members of the Federal Communications Commission gathered this morning to vote on a new plan to regulate the Internet, protesters supporting ever-tighter… Read More
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Fast Food ‘Strikes’ Just a Front for Massive Union Organizing Campaign
The media have extensively covered global fast food “strikes” today. But very few actual workers participated in #FastFoodStrike. USA Today reports only “hundreds of fast… Read More
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Housing Finance Bill Wins Committee Approval, but Faces Uncertain Future
Several key Democrats refused to support a housing finance bill in a Senate committee today, leaving its prospects for passage unlikely this year. The measure… Read More
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Q&A: Should All Americans Join the Same Retirement Plan as Members of Congress?
On Tuesday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) proposed several reforms to the nation’s retirement system, including allowing all workers who do not have access to an… Read More
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Congress Is Debating the Future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Today. What Does That Mean for Taxpayers?
The Senate Banking Committee meets today at 10 a.m. to consider a housing finance bill that eliminates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac but leaves taxpayers… Read More
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NEW VIDEO: Want Wealth, Health, and a Clean Environment? Then You Want Economic Freedom
#ChooseFreedom from Timbro on Vimeo. The benefits of economic freedom may be falling on deaf ears here in Washington, but around the world, economic freedom… Read More
Advancing Economic Freedom: An Antidote to Boko Haram
“Africa is not burning,” and “our presence in Nigeria is really a statement that terrorism cannot win.” These are the words of the president of… Read More
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What the 2014 Deficit Tells and Doesn’t About the U.S. Budget Gap
While the budget has received relatively little attention since February, one misleading headline has made the rounds: “US on Track for Narrowest Budget Gap Since… Read More
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Senate Highway Bill Highlights: Weak on Reforms, Keeps the Waste Intact
Late last night, the Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works released its 150-page proposal for a six-year reauthorization of the current highway and surface… Read More
USDA Serves as Designated Driver on the Bourbon Trail
If you are a foreign journalist and are thinking of taking a whiskey-soaked trip across Kentucky’s famous Bourbon Trail, you’re in luck: The federal government… Read More
Raise Middle-Class Wages, Not the Minimum Wage
There was more bad news for workers’ paychecks in the recent April jobs report. Wages and salaries were flat. No raise at all – not… Read More
One Way to Stop American Jobs from Walking Away
Policy has consequences, and they’re often very predictable. For example, if you tax businesses more, they will be less likely to locate in your country…. Read More
California Leavin’: This State Is in a State of Denial
Everyone knows how you diplomatically break up a romantic relationship that has come to an end. The problem, you say to the one you’re splitting… Read More
Why the Postal Service Was Right to Side With Junk Mailers Over Outbox
Unquestionably, the U.S. Postal Service must start acting like a business—and, as such, its decision to refuse to partner with start-up Outbox was a smart… Read More
Don’t Reauthorize OPIC Without Debate
The proposed Electrify Africa Act of 2014 is intended to “encourage access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa.” That’s a worthy goal. However, the bill includes… Read More
In TTIP Negotiations, Neither Side Showing Commitment to Liberalization
Even as the leaders of two major business groups in the European Union and the U.S. met to talk about the need for further trade… Read More
What Your Congressman Isn’t Reading Could Be Costing You Money
How much does it cost to run the Senate hair salon? Lawmakers say they want to know. Or do they? Since its earliest days, Congress… Read More
Economic Freedom: Heritage’s 2014 Global Agenda
Last week, The Heritage Foundation’s Economic Freedom Task Force published its 2014 Global Agenda for Economic Freedom. In it the task force identifies obstacles to… Read More
Mike Lee: What Everybody Ought to Know About the Tax Code in 15-Seconds [VIDEO]
During a recent speech at The Heritage Foundation, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) talked about how the tax code is a prime example of how the… Read More
U.S. Should Borrow Pages from Canada’s Recovery Playbook
The New York Times has announced that the American middle class is no longer the wealthiest in the world. That distinction, the Times claims, now… Read More
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Follow Your Tax Dollars Across This Map to Unfriendly Nations
What’s worse than using taxpayer money for special interests and cronyism? Maybe sending taxpayer money to nations that aren’t the best friends of the United… Read More
5 Years of Obama: The Real Story
Considering the country’s weak economic growth of just 0.1 percent last quarter, it is worth reflecting on the recovery effort that President Obama and his… Read More
Caution: Senators at Work
Obamacare is wreaking havoc on the economy; entitlement spending is swallowing the federal budget; America’s military readiness is in shambles; and a handful of senators… Read More
Happy May Day, Workers: Unions Will Take Your Dues Now and Give Them to Politicians
Donors like the Koch brothers make the news a lot, but did you know unions are five of the top 10 groups giving political donations… Read More
No One Believes It, But Extreme Poverty Is Declining Globally
In new research polling released this week, Barna Group finds that more than eight in 10 Americans (84 percent) are unaware global poverty has been… Read More
What’s Oprah Got to Do With Opportunity? Mike Lee Knows.
Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, and Michael Jordan didn’t need government to stack the deck so they could succeed on a grand scale. And that’s what… Read More
New GDP Report Means America Still Stuck in Slow Growth Rut
The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its first report for GDP growth in the first quarter of 2014 today. It showed the economy grew at… Read More
The Robin Hood Fallacy: Piketty Would Take from the Rich to Give to the Poor
In public policy, bad ideas—no matter how many times they have been discredited—never completely go away. They seem to pop up over and over. Enter… Read More
Sen. Mike Lee on Fighting for Equal Opportunity
“In this present crisis,” Ronald Reagan famously declared, “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” These words, though they inspired… Read More
Regulation Has Contributed to Financial Crises for More Than a Century
The Economist and George Selgin have provided us with two complementary pieces of financial history that provide background on the founding of the Federal Reserve…. Read More
