Government regulation in France: Above a certain size, building new homes requires a licensed architect. Outcome:

The only policy event where ice cream is mandatory 🍦 Join us for a World IP Day Ice Cream Social with the Congressional Inventions Project 🗓 April 21 | 12–2 PM 📍Capitol South Metro

In the last 30 years, the number of public companies has been cut in half. The situation has gotten so bad that the Wilshire 5000 index, founded in 1974 to track the broadest portfolio of all US publicly traded stocks, now listsonly about 3700 stocks! In my latest piece in

NEW EPISODE: The #340B drug program was designed to help uninsured patients afford medications. It's now an $80 billion revenue engine for hospitals. How did we get here — and what should we do about it? The Health Economists & Academic Leaders Network's Steve Parente sat down with Sayeh Nikpay (UMN School of Public Health) to find

NEW from me: The 2026 version of my chart book. It is 132 pages of charts that defy liberal & conservative conventional wisdom about spending, taxes, deficits, debt, and even presidential fiscal performance. A full career of federal budget expertise in picture form. 🧵

They did not put this on the building. 😭😭😭

The hyperscalers have already outspent the most famous US megaprojects

I received a great phone call out of the blue from a very prominent progressive who agreed with my column in the Washington Post Opinions this week. I mean a guy of such stature that I felt obliged to call him "Mr. __" when I called back. His point was something that had not occurred to

The "yes" vote has won Va's redistricting referendum — but the legal fight is just beginning. Four Va Constitutional challenges are now teed up: THREE challenges to the amendment process itself: 1️⃣ First passage was invalid. The amendment was taken up during a special session

My new Bloomberg Opinion column looks at the dozens of economist-supported policies that would help lower the price of essential goods & services - reforms that US politicians, supposedly obsessed with "affordability," routinely ignore: /1

Speech being violence is one of the oldest arguments in the book. People discover that the line between speech and violence is a social construct, then decide that means they can redraw it however they like. Usually in a very convenient way.

New essay on Ben Sasse and the question I can't stop asking myself. How can a dying man without the ability to grow skin on his face radiate a joy, levity, and peace that the rest of us are starving for?

What happens when you mix ice cream with innovation policy? You get 300+ Congressional staff, 70+ House offices, and a bipartisan conversation on how IP fuels jobs, startups, and economic growth. The Congressional Inventions Project brought World IP Day to life—one scoop at a

The Japanese railway privatization of 1987 stands as one of the most devastating defeats ever dealt to statist transportation mythology. The government split the bloated Japan National Railways into seven regional companies, sold them off, and watched private ownership transform

“Many senators I know would not be able to breathe without that job. It would kill them to leave,” says Scott Pelley. “I don't want what you said to be true. But I fear that that is true. And that is a sign of a much, much deeper problem,” responds former Sen. Ben Sasse.

It’s the age of electricity and America isn’t ready. Virtually every goal that Americans care about requires big changes to the power grid. I’m in New York Times Opinion today on why power bills are going up, whether AI is to blame, & what we need to do about it: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

High hospital prices are the chief reason the U.S. spends so much more on health care than other countries. If you want to improve health care affordability, hospital costs are a good place to start.

Nuking the build-to-rent housing industry doesn't help anyone and just makes the housing crisis worse. Populists want to appear tough on institutional investors, but there are real direct costs to policies like this. Really hope the House fixes this provision in conference.

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It can't be stressed enough. The 1946 debt/GDP peak was due a literal world war against tyranny. The United States had a young workforce to sustain economic growth. Now, the US has an aging population & is wasting fiscal space on the already wealthy elderly.