EconomyNews
Your Federal Gas Taxes Pay for This Program. Congress Will Decide Its Financial Future.
Every time you fill your car with gas, a portion of what you pay at the pump goes to a federal program called the Highway… Read More
EconomyNews
The Export-Import Bank’s Charter Expires in Two Months. Here’s What You Need to Know About It.
Policymakers are currently considering the future of the Export-Import Bank, a little-known government agency that provides taxpayer-backed loans and loan guarantees to foreign countries and… Read More
EconomyNews
How Ohio Aims to ‘Set a National Race’ for Transparency
Last December, the Ohio State treasurer, Josh Mandel, launched OhioCheckbook.com, a website specifically dedicated to showing taxpayers exactly where their dollars are going. However the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Truth About GOP Budgets: They Never Balance
In Washington, the conservative thing to do these days is to champion a balanced budget. Quite recently, in fact, Republicans have congratulated themselves for passing… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Ex-Im Misrepresents Subsidies to Prominent Billionaire
The chairman of the government’s Export-Import Bank has repeatedly mischaracterized several deals that have benefited billionaire Elon Musk. These misrepresentations, among other mismanagement and dysfunction… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Key Facts About Congress’s Budget, Which Will Repeal Obamacare Through Reconciliation
House and Senate negotiators reached a conference agreement on the fiscal year 2016 budget which is expected to be voted on in the House this… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Even Cost-Benefit Analysis Misses the Overall Impact of Regulation
In some cases, federal financial regulators have to consider the incremental impact of new rules and regulations. But they hardly ever are required to examine… Read More
EconomyNews
Conservative House Freedom Caucus Comes Out Against Export-Import Bank
A group of 40 conservative lawmakers collectively known as the House Freedom Caucus have come out in opposition to the controversial Export-Import Bank, joining Republican… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Very Weak Growth in First Quarter Shows How Weak the Economic Recovery Is
In the first quarter of 2015 (January, February and March), the economy exhibited weakness that has become all too common during the Obama era. The… Read More
EconomyNews
Exclusive: House Panel Questions Export-Import Bank on ‘Unacceptable’ Delay of Information Requests About Ties to Clinton-Backed Firm
An unfulfilled request for information—pending for over 500 days —on the relationship between the Export-Import Bank and a consulting firm with ties to the Clinton… Read More
EconomyCommentary
What the Budget Conference Should Accomplish
This week, House and Senate negotiators are expected to pass their budget plan. After the House and Senate passed their respective budget blueprints in March,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Should Texas Require Hair Stylists to Have Over 2,000 Hours of Training to Legally Braid Hair?
Did you know Texas imposes stringent license regulations in order to open an African hair braiding business, including a requirement to attend more than 2,000… Read More
EconomyCommentary
How the Midwest Is Scaling Back Big Labor’s Special Privileges
Labor unions have traditionally been the 800-pound gorilla of special interest groups. They have secured handouts and subsidies that other organizations’ lobbyists could only dream… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Next Round of Net Neutrality Court Battles
Telecommunications policymaking has long been compared to a three-ring circus consisting of the Federal Communications Commission, the courts and Congress. Nowhere has that been truer… Read More
EconomyNews
Lawmakers Call on Export-Import Bank Supporters to Lobby Capitol Hill
With less than 70 days to go before the Export-Import Bank’s charter expires, the countdown on determining the 80-year-old’s agency is underway. To push Congress… Read More
EconomyNews
Rubio Takes on Export-Import Bank: ‘Government Should Not Be Picking Winners and Losers’
As hundreds of business owners, bankers and government officials descended on Washington, D.C., in support of the embattled Export-Import Bank, Republicans miles away mobilized to… Read More
EconomyNews
House GOP Report: ‘IRS Deliberately Cut Funding for Customer Service’
On Wednesday, the House Ways and Means Committee released a report detailing wasteful spending at the Internal Revenue Service. The Washington Post recently reported that… Read More
Quadrennial Energy Review: A Plan to Buy Off the States
The Obama Administration has revealed “the nation’s first ever Quadrennial Energy Review” (QER)—a first ever merely because the energy plans of past Administrations were titled… Read More
EconomyNews
Rep. Jim Jordan: Export-Import Bank Is Today’s ‘Bridge to Nowhere’
Comparing it to a decade-old example of wasteful spending benefiting special interest groups, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, today criticized the controversial Export-Import Bank by calling… Read More
EconomyNews
More Than 50 Groups Join Forces in Calling for Export-Import Bank’s End
With less than 70 days before the Export-Import Bank’s charter expires, a coalition of groups has formed in opposition to the agency’s reauthorization. More than… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Fewer Americans Are Working Two Jobs
Is a job a necessity or an opportunity? Earlier this month, Dylan Matthews provocatively challenged the bipartisan tradition of praising work. In Matthews’ view, work… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Why Are Many Former Workers Not Even Applying for Job Openings?
There was good news this month: private-sector job openings rose slightly in February, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Openings rose… Read More
EconomyNews
Home Is Where the Heartache Is: Hurricane Sandy Victims Still Not Recovered
EAST ROCKAWAY, N.Y.—For Frances Healy, a 90-year-old widow known as “Muzzy,” home is just a tease. Muzzy lives so close to her gutted, molded home—an… Read More
EconomyCommentary
These Blue States Have Tried the Elizabeth Warren Model. Their Residents Are Fleeing.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently appeared on one of the late night talk shows, beating the class warfare drum and arguing for billions of dollars in… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Anti-Big Labor Trend the Media Is Missing
Last month Wisconsin made national headlines by becoming the 25th right-to-work state. But there’s another equally significant development in workers’ rights that has largely escaped… Read More
EconomyNews
Who Are the Biggest Foreign Buyers Benefiting from Export-Import Bank Loans?
Supporters of the Export-Import Bank often argue the agency supports small businesses and allows such firms to compete in the global market. However, a new… Read More
EconomyCommentary
We Tax Small Businesses More Than Big Businesses And Other Reasons We Need Tax Reform
Getting Americans to agree on anything isn’t easy. So let’s hand it to our tax code. When asked in a recent survey to rate it,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
How Slashing Taxes Could Increase How Many Superstar Inventors Move to US
One of the ways that low taxes promote economic growth is by attracting people with valuable ideas. In a new working paper, economists from the… Read More
EconomyNews
Australian Satellite Company Backed by Export-Import Bank Loans Files for Bankruptcy
An Australian satellite company backed by hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded loans from the Export-Import Bank has filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy, putting the… Read More
EconomyNews
House GOP Plans Secret Vote to Determine Export-Import Bank’s Future
With Republicans divided over the Export-Import Bank, the agency’s future could come down to a secret vote cast during a closed-door meeting. The House Republican… Read More
