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New Publications

  • Rethinking Which Accounts Qualify For Deposit Insurance

    by David Howden
    Jun 18, 2013

  • The 2013 Farm Bill: Limiting Waste by Limiting Farm-Subsidy Budgets

    by Vincent H. Smith
    Jun 17, 2013

  • The Economic Situation, June 2013

    by Bruce Yandle
    Jun 17, 2013

  • 2013 Cost Projections for Medicare Programs

    by Veronique de Rugy
    Jun 17, 2013

  • The Employment Impact of Regulation

    by Keith Hall
    Jun 14, 2013

More Publications

Upcoming Events

  • Capitol Hill Campus: Dr. Yandle's Quarterly Economic Report: The Mid-Year Economy

    Registration 11:30am, Lunch and Presentation 12:00pm - 1:00pm
    Jun 21, 2013
  • Philadelphia Supporter and Friend Lunch

    Registration and Mingling 11:30am, Lunch and Presentation 12:00pm - 1:30pm
    Jun 26, 2013
  • 2014 Annual Retreat: Advancing Liberty, Creating Change

    Mar 21, 2014
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"Uncertainty" is the key word that describes the economic outlook in mid-2013, according to Bruce Yandle's latest economic update. He paints a picture of our current landscape on Fed policy, regulation, spending and taxes, health care, and employment.

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Pennsylvania's Sluggish Labor Market

Freedom in the Fifty States

The Nature of Austerity in Europe

Mercatus Center Dissertation and MA Fellows Graduate

Bloated Farm Bill Subsidies

The Future of Social Security and Medicare

Books

Freedom in the 50 States, 2013 Edition

by William Ruger, Jason Sorens
Mar 28, 2013

Copyright Unbalanced: From Incentive to Excess

by Jerry Brito
Nov 30, 2012

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Expert Commentary

  • With Bank Failures, the FDIC is the Problem

    Real Clear Markets
    By Hester Peirce
    Jun 19, 2013

  • Can the Budget Ever Be Cut?

    Reason Magazine
    By Veronique de Rugy
    Jun 19, 2013

  • Better Solutions for More Jobs in Our Jobless Recovery

    The Wall Street Journal Letter to the Editor
    By Keith Hall
    Jun 17, 2013

  • A Farm Bill Bait and Switch

    U.S. News and World Report
    By Vincent H. Smith
    Jun 17, 2013

  • Bloated Farm Bill Subsidies: Will the Farm Bill Cut the Fat?

    By Vincent H. Smith
    Jun 17, 2013

More Expert Commentary

Veronique de Rugy Discusses Student Loan Debt on ABC 7 News

Veronique de Rugy | Jun 17, 2013

New Podcast Episodes

  • Keith Hall at Regulation University: The Employment Costs of Regulation

    Jun 14, 2013

  • Kling on the Three Languages of Politics

    Jun 03, 2013

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Spending & Budget

  • The 2013 Farm Bill: Limiting Waste by Limiting Farm-Subsidy Budgets

  • The Economic Situation, June 2013

  • The Hidden Costs of Tax Compliance

  • Beyond Unemployment: The Full Labor Market Picture of Ohio

  • Defense Spending and the Economy

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Financial Markets

  • Rethinking Which Accounts Qualify For Deposit Insurance

  • How to Fix Our Broken Proxy Advisory System

  • The Federal Reserve's Expanding Regulatory Umbrella

  • An Introduction to U.S. Monetary Policy

  • Evaluating the Centralized-Layers Approach to U.S. Federal Financial Regulation

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Tech Policy

  • Reclaiming Federal Spectrum: Proposals and Recommendations

  • Uncreative Destruction: The Misguided War on Vertical Integration in the Information Economy

  • The Pursuit of Privacy in a World Where Information Control Is Failing

  • Technopanics, Threat Inflation, and the Danger of an Information Technology Precautionary Principle

  • Beyond Cyber-Doom: Assessing the Limits of Hypothetical Scenarios in the Framing of Cyber-Threats

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Regulation

  • The Unintended Consequences of Safety Regulation

  • Evaluating OSHA's Effectiveness and Suggestions for Reform

  • Evaluating the Centralized-Layers Approach to U.S. Federal Financial Regulation

  • The Employment Costs of Regulation

  • The Economic Situation, March 2013

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State and Local

  • The Economic Situation, June 2013

  • Beyond Unemployment: Pennsylvania's Sluggish Labor Market

  • The Economic Situation, March 2013

  • Delaware's Public Employees' Retirement System: A Complete and Transparent Accounting

  • State Capitalism and the Rent-Seeking Conjecture

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Economics

  • The Economic Situation, June 2013

  • The Economic Situation, December 2012

  • Economic Analysis By Federal Financial Regulators

  • The Case for Nominal GDP Targeting

  • Uncreative Destruction: The Misguided War on Vertical Integration in the Information Economy

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