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Last September, then vice-presidential candidate JD Vance called out high egg prices under the Biden Administration (AP Photo).

Did DOJ’s Investigation of the Egg Industry Cause Egg Prices to Fall?

Gavin A. Sicard and Hal Singer

June 13, 2025

The Abundance Institute hosted a policy summit in May 2025.

Why Big Oil and Big Tech Are Big Fans of Abundance

Kenny Stancil

June 02, 2025

Six months after its creation, the Works Progress Administration employed about 2.7 million Americans.

Skip the Spending Plans. Head Directly to Government Jobs.

Hal Singer

May 29, 2025

The FTC appears to be carrying the water for Elon Musk.

The FTC Should Not Be Wielded as a Weapon of Authoritarianism

Bryce Tuttle

May 28, 2025

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speak at a Fight Oligarchy rally. K.M. Cannon / Las Vegas Review-Journal / TNS via Getty Images file

Progressives Need a New Toolkit to Fight Inflation

Hal Singer

May 10, 2025

The neoclassical school was a category originally used by Thorstein Veblen to group the Austrian school of thought with the “marginalists.”

Trump Shatters the Assumptions of Neoclassical Economics

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

April 28, 2025

Musk has usurped congressional power and initiated the dismantling of agencies like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

State Antimonopoly Enforcement Must Be a Guardian of American Democracy. Here’s How.

Daniel A. Hanley

April 10, 2025

The abandoned Bethlehem Steel plant's gas blowing room. (Source: Abandoned America)

The Failed Assumptions of Free Trade

Mark Glick and Gabriel Lozada

April 02, 2025

Rep. Ben Cline has introduced a bill eliminating the Federal Trade Commission.

The Zero Agency Act

Darren Bush

April 01, 2025

Napheesa Collier celebrates a win with young WNBA fans.

The WNBA Labor Dispute Is Just Another Choice Made by the NBA

David Berri

March 27, 2025

President Trump announced a partnership between SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX called “Stargate,” named after the sci-fi franchise.

Should The Government Subsidize Artificial Intelligence?

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

March 05, 2025

Former Attorney General John Mitchell (via Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs)

Look At What Courts Do, Not What They Say

Peter Carstensen

February 22, 2025