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New Data Lay Bare the Jones Act’s Broken Shipbuilding Bargain

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By Colin Grabow
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Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. (Getty Images) The Jones Act rests upon a tacit bargain: Americans pay higher costs because of the law’s prohibition on foreign-built and internationally flagged ships transporting goods within the United States, and in exchange, they receive what the Shipbuilders Council of America describes as a “robust and competitive” domestic shipyard industrial base.
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Greenspan Followed Policy Rules and So Should the Modern Fed

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By Jai Kedia
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Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. (Getty Images) Former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan died this week at 100 years old. He was a towering figure in macroeconomics, having presided over much of the Great Moderation—arguably the longest period of low, stable inflation and unemployment in US economic history. At the heart of his monetary policy decision-making was a curious contradiction.
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Friday Feature: REALM Learning

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By Colleen Hroncich
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Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. After seeing her mom’s crazy schedule as a teacher, Jessica Slayback swore she’d never be one. She studied music at the University of Chicago, harboring visions of a concert piano career. “While there, I started to work in the public schools and started to have this working theory that if we just could get kids to do, like, theater and arts and music, they’d be so much happier and everything would change,” she recalls.
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Senator Warren’s Social Security Numbers Don’t Add Up

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By Romina Boccia, Ivane Nachkebia
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Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. (Getty Images) Senator Elizabeth Warren (D‑MA), alongside Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D‑IL) and Richard Blumenthal (D‑CT), sent a letter to President Donald Trump, warning that raising Social Security’s full retirement age from 67 to 69 would cut retirees’ monthly benefits by 17 to 35 percent. There’s just one problem: the study her letter cites doesn’t support those numbers.
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Election Policy Roundup #26: The Courts Are Heard From

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By Walter Olson
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The World Cup Is Putting American Abundance on Display

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By Scott Lincicome Verified
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As briefly mentioned in my last column, World Cup tourists’ repeated astonishment with everyday American abundance has become a viral sensation—and in a very good way.
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Budget Supplemental Would Mean More Wasteful Defense Spending

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By Benjamin Giltner
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Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. (Getty Images) Yesterday, the White House sent Congress an $87.6 billion supplemental budget request. A large portion of it, $67.1 billion to be exact, would be for national defense—namely to fund Operation Epic Fury. Compared to the $1.5 trillion defense budget requested by the White House for 2027, $67.1 billion looks like a drop in the bucket. Still, this supplemental will add billions more to national defense spending.
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“Overwhelmingly a Positive Development”: FDA Finally Stops Blocking Safe, Effective Bemotrizinol Sunscreens

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By Michael Cannon
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Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. When US residents barbecue and bask in the sun this July 4 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of “a new nation, conceived in liberty,” we still won’t be free to exercise one right that Europeans and others have been free to exercise for decades.
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Curbing Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Federal Welfare Programs

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By Romina Boccia, Tyler Turman
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Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. (Getty Images) Congress is gearing up for another potential reconciliation bill. If it moves forward, Congress should pursue reforms that curb waste, fraud, and abuse in federal welfare programs. A new Cato Institute briefing paper examines the design flaws that drive misspending in five major federal welfare programs and outlines reforms to address them.
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All Suffer the Penalty of a Wealth Tax

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By Veronique de Rugy
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Last week, nearly every elite men’s tennis player skipped one of London’s marquee tournaments. Only one of the world’s top 10 showed up at Queen’s Club, the traditional Wimbledon warmup; stars including Alexander Zverev, Daniil Medvedev, Taylor Fritz and Ben Shelton were playing 300 miles away in Halle, Germany. A culprit was likely Britain’s tax code, which doesn’t stop at taxing prize money earned on British soil.
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