Where Elizabeth Warren leads, Joe Biden follows.| ryanbourne.substack.com
Problems with Steve Teles' Abundance Group Taxonomy| The War on Prices
Our conclusion that downsizing accounted for a tiny fraction of post-pandemic price rises is vindicated.| ryanbourne.substack.com
Is the United States moving toward “state capitalism with American characteristics”?| The War on Prices
Last month, one of us wrote about how progressives in Congress were using tariff-induced price hikes to revive kooky ideas about “greedflation.”| The War on Prices
Update: new data since publication vindicates the hypothesis outlined in this piece.| The War on Prices
In a recent podcast on DOGE 1.0, Alex Nowrasteh and I discussed how Elon Musk had overpromised on government spending cuts and so inevitably under-delivered.| The War on Prices
Appearance on a new Cato podcast| ryanbourne.substack.com
Donald Trump’s 2025 tariff barrage is rolling on relentlessly: 50 percent duties on steel and aluminum, 25 percent on cars and auto parts, and so-called “reciprocal” tariffs settling at 10 percent for most everything else—with more and higher levies looming in August.| ryanbourne.substack.com
The NYC Mayoral candidate's pricing policies would bring a high efficiency cost| The War on Prices
The gender pay gap—the widely-cited statistic showing that the median female worker earns less than the median male worker—remains a lightning rod in policy debates.| ryanbourne.substack.com
In recent weeks, the White House has been the main aggressor in The War on Prices.| ryanbourne.substack.com
No. That doesn't follow.| ryanbourne.substack.com
Last week in the New York Times, Emory professor Mark Bauerlein made a surprising pitch to President Trump: don’t kill the National Endowments for Humanities and the Arts—hijack them.| ryanbourne.substack.com
A target for DOGE?| The War on Prices
On X today, someone responded to a critique of Donald Trump’s tariffs with this common argument for protectionism:| The War on Prices
Models to make sense of DOGE's activities and future| ryanbourne.substack.com
Recently I shared an article about the UK’s unhinged equal pay laws.| ryanbourne.substack.com
This article was originally published in The Times (UK) on September 12, 2024.| ryanbourne.substack.com
Ahead of tonight’s Presidential debate, sixteen Nobel Prize-winning economists have written a letter in support of President Joe Biden.| ryanbourne.substack.com
President Joe Biden often complains about "shrinkflation." Before the Super Bowl, he aired an ad arguing that some companies were sneakily raising prices by reducing the quantity or weight of products in a package.| ryanbourne.substack.com
Our new Cato book, The War on Prices, will be released next week.| ryanbourne.substack.com
Thank you to those of you who have pre-ordered or asked for review copies of The War on Prices. Over recent days, sales have surged ahead of the May 14th publication date, and the book is currently the #1 New Release in Macroeconomics and in Inflation on Amazon.| ryanbourne.substack.com
Analyzing the Biden administration's petty attacks on companies' pricing structures| ryanbourne.substack.com
Truss's new government aims for growth through tax cuts and deregulation| ryanbourne.substack.com
Hooray for removing barriers to growth, if that's the intention| ryanbourne.substack.com
