Veronique de Rugy
@veroderugy
Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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President Trump's proposed “compact” with universities seems to contain a lot of unconstitutional restrictions on speech and association. cato.org/blog/universit… via @CatoInstitute
De minimis: "UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems: Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance" nbcnews.com/business/busin…
How do they do it? Coal. The answer is Coal.
This is impressive…to say the least: How China Powers Its Electric Cars and High-Speed Trains nytimes.com/2025/10/11/bus… via @NYTimes
This is American Exceptionalism. 📊
The United States is home to the most foreign-born AND the most native-born scientific Nobel laureates, both by large margins:
If you're a free-market conservative and support JD Vance, you haven't been paying attention.
"A terrorist is whoever the executive branch decides to label one." @SenRandPaul explains that the president does not have authority to unilaterally blow suspected drug smugglers to smithereens: reason.pub/4ofz65P
And that's a good thing. The corporate income tax is one of the worst taxes on the books.
Corporate income taxes are $77 billion lower than last year, primarily due to the Republican tax cuts for the rich.
Reminder that tariffs have caused unambiguous increases in US retail prices. Anyone in the Trump admin who claims otherwise is lying to you.
Tariffs continue to show up in prices: • Imported goods: 6.5% above pre-tariff trends • Domestic goods: 4.5% above Updated charts and data available at pricinglab.org/tariff-tracker
From @veroderugy: At the heart of the budget standoff that has the government shut down is Democrats’ insistence on extracting a laundry list of policy changes nysun.com/article/debunk…
Health incentives. Review of Mike Cannon at National Affairs and WSJ on 340B grumpy-economist.com/p/health-incen…
After a year of huge savings promises from DOGE & tariffs, the budget deficit collapsed from $1,817 billion all the way down to ... $1,809 billion. And spending rose by $301 billion. Now, the real fun begins as the OBBBA costs ramp up. Interest costs are steeply rising too. 😳
Six Reasons to Not Extend the Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies 🔴Costs almost half a trillion dollars 🔴Welfare for the well-off 🔴Subsidizes insurance companies, not patients 🔴Rampant enrollment fraud 🔴High cost for little patient value 🔴Temporary policy should stay temporary
The Trump administration just took yet another equity stake in yet another private company, this time 10% in Alaskan miner Trilogy Metals. Sheesh. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Half of all US imports are used as inputs by American manufacturers. Here’s what happens when you impose a bunch of taxes on those imports:
U.S. manufacturing shrank this past September for the 7th consecutive month. straitstimes.com/business/econo…
Once again, the government taking stakes in private companies to expand its control is closer to textbook socialism than anything we saw during the Biden administration. Would be nice if more of the GOP’s socialism hawks would say so.
Billionaire Trump Donor Paulson Scores Windfall Thanks To Government’s Investment In Trilogy Metals forbes.com/sites/hanktuck…
@JohnHCochrane, économiste à @Stanford, très attentif au débat français autour de l’imposition des ultra-riches, prend position contre la taxe Zucman. ➡️ l.lexpress.fr/LGr ✍️ @ThibaultMarotte
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In my latest Substack, I argue that business leaders mistook hacking for building. They optimized products and profits but let the ideas princples that made their progress possible decay. It’s time to rebuild the scaffolding of ideas.
Let the Work Opportunity Tax Credit Expire Originally sold as a way to help disadvantaged workers gain a foothold in the labor market, it has become yet another narrow tax break that costs taxpayers billions while delivering negligible results. theunseenandtheunsaid.com/p/let-the-work…
Excellent piece by @George_A_Callas and @jenniferdoleac on the WOTC. I reached the same conclusion in my earlier piece on the program: it mostly delivers windfalls to firms that would have hired anyway, with little evidence it improves long-term outcomes for workers.
In the pages of @TaxNotes my @Arnold_Ventures colleague @jenniferdoleac and I walk through new research finding that the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) has no effect on hiring and just provides a $2 billion annual windfall to employers that would’ve hired the same people.
When you hear Democrats say our healthcare system is broken. It’s worth remembering all the Democrats who insisted Obamacare would fix our broken healthcare system. When you hear Republicans say our healthcare system is broken (because of Obamacare), worth remembering that they…
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