"The tariff is making it more difficult for companies to supply our nation's essential workers with antiseptics and sanitizing products they need."
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The Obamacare contraception mandate continues to cause legal trouble.
Executive orders may have encouraged the lockdowns, but they always depended on voluntary behavior.
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As long as it's neither safe nor legal to conduct normal business, Bastiat's seen economic activity is beyond our reach. The unseen doubly so.
We need essential workers right now. We also need markets and the price signals they provide.
The "privatization" of space has already expanded the possibilities of the cosmos for all mankind far beyond what six decades of federal bureaucracy could.
The lawmaker says that the company's data practices violate antitrust law. They do not.
The department has granted just 1 percent of the tariff exemption requests that were challenged by domestic steel producers.
If politicians really want to help citizens, they should brush up on the laws of supply and demand.
The Federalist's Ben Domenech is fighting the government in court.
The NLRB's prosecution of a conservative journalist should be worrisome.
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It's time to push back on arbitrary classifications that punish businesses and customers alike without clearly helping public health.
But testing remains a key issue in some of those states.
Western countries aren’t immune to the siren call of surveillance via commerce-tracking.
The economy is broadly healthy and that it's benefiting nearly everyone—including the lower-income households who need it most.
Amid growing unrest, oil-dependent nations may have no choice but to open their economies.
Unless we cause one by overreacting to Asia's changing political and economic landscape
The strict stay-at-home order received a great deal of backlash for its more arbitrary prohibitions.
A new report from the Social Security Administration expects the program to hit insolvency by 2035. Some experts say it could happen as soon as 2028 if there is a serious recession.
Economists David Henderson and Justin Wolfers debate whether the coronavirus lockdowns are doing more harm than good.
Hoover Institution's David Henderson vs. University of Michigan's Justin Wolfers
The coronavirus shutdown might alter buying patterns, as more people flee tightly packed cities for suburban, exurban, and rural areas.
"I think a lot of people should just say, 'No. We're not going back to that.'"
Restaurants and shops are already suffering enough.
The kill switch to the economy was easy to find. The "on" button may be impossible to locate.
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The Trump-era GOP lends credence to the idea that Obama-era Republicans cared about deficits only as a means of hampering a Democratic president.
The private sector has proven to be more resilient and flexible than the government.
The libertarian-leaning congressman says the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses discriminates against those that most need it.
Health care expert Avik Roy says that even without widespread testing, it's time to reopen schools and allow healthy, younger employees to go back to work.
It's obvious that there will be more government spending in response to the coronavirus, but distinguishing the essential from the nice-to-have is more important than ever.
"The more we lock down the economy, the more we harm those individuals who are most vulnerable, who don't have the cash cushions or the white-collar jobs that allow them to keep going."
The war between Openers and Closers shouldn't be seen as a fight between idiot death-worshippers and unnecessarily frightened tyrants.
"The more government gets involved, or the more government regulation, the greater are the increases in prices over time."
And Georgia will reopen select businesses beginning April 24.
The company says it will return the money after it was announced that the Paycheck Protection Program ran out of funding.
This proposal might work, but it's doubtful that our politicians and president are competent enough to pull it off.
The White House announced a temporary suspension of tariff payments as a way to stimulate the American economy, but the relief will not apply to tariffs on steel, aluminum, or imports from China.
We may find that we like making our own decisions.
The congresswoman claimed that Amazon is "refusing to provide basic protective equipment to workers." That's not true.
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"A national shutdown is not a sustainable long-term situation," Trump said Thursday evening. "We are not opening all at once, but one careful step at a time."
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The $349 billion loan program is meant to help small companies hit hard by social distancing.
