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All roads in that frame lead to a War on Prices.
If left unchecked, immigration enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology could potentially trigger a constitutional crisis.
The U.S. makes real concessions for small, temporary wins—and boosts China in the process.
For nearly a century now, FDIC insurance has been used to justify increased federal involvement in banking, including ridiculously complex regulations that don’t seem to work too well.
The best way to ensure healthy outcomes and protect children from the partisan crossfire of D.C. politicking is to break the federal grip on nutrition programs.
If the Supreme Court permits expansive reliance on inherited emergency statutes and executive proclamations, it will entrench a presidency that often displaces Congress as the nation’s lawmaker.
The government’s policy claims defending IEEPA tariffs are laughable.
Politicians on the left and right see that the debt is exploding and are doing nothing.
Reform needs to happen before the Bank Secrecy Act gets to celebrate its next big milestone
The Supreme Court will not devastate the economy or the budget by obeying the Constitution.
But such alarmism may undermine freedom.
Behind the political theater lies a fundamentally broken Washington.
Trump’s campaign against DEI has so far spared the Census Bureau’s insidious racial classifications.
When the government acts aggressively, its agents lie, and the community witnesses the erosion of justice, that community’s informed distrust of the government’s actions is not a bias to be purged.
The ICBA wants people to believe that the nation’s small banks are the backbone of America. At the same time, though, they’re telling everyone that it’s critical to supply these banks with more federal backing.
Will politicians take the heat and get rid of the ratchet willingly, or wait until a fiscal crisis compels them to?
If Washington truly wants lower prices, stronger investment and resilient supply chains, officials should see at this point that the answer isn’t higher tariff walls.
The DBCFT is a clever acronym for an old Beltway habit: spend more, tax more and call it reform.
The popular phrase enables professed anti-war conservatives to conserve liberal internationalism.
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