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The best policy ideas for making gasoline more affordable – faster permitting for domestic drilling and pipeline construction alongside fewer regulations targeting refineries or dictating gasoline formulas – take time to play out and will not have an immediate effect on the current national average price of

A few weeks after he was confirmed as Treasury secretary last year, Scott Bessent delivered a message to the American Bankers Association that regulatory relief was coming, especially for small and midsize banks. Bessent stated, “Community bankers can make America gr...

Investors understand the power of compound interest. Over time, small gains accumulate into exponential growth.

Innovation often works the same way. One breakthrough creates the foundation for the next, which enables another. Over time, innovation compounds, producing transformative economic and technological change.

Few technologies better demonstrate the...

The Court of International Trade struck down President Trump’s Section 122 tariffs. The labor force shrank by 92,000 people over the last year. Agencies issued new regulations ranging from higher deportation fees to imported gun parts.

On to the data:

In this week’s episode we cover how to make the moral case for capitalism,