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March 1, 2025

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Senior Fellow Judy Shelton joins the David Lin Show to discuss the Fed, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, gold-backed bonds, and a "radical" solution to end inflation.

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** DOGE’s Dollars to the People ([link removed])
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Policy Fellow K. Lloyd Billingsley shares a little-known fact of history: California once enacted a plan similar to DOGE’s current tax refund plan.
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** Trump’s high-risk tariff gamble ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa argues there is nothing to be gained from trade wars and urges President Trump to focus on shrinking government.
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** A Very Short History of American Universities, 1636-2025 ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Richard Vedder explains why college enrollment rates are dropping so dramatically.
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** Why California’s plan to harden homes against wildfires is broken ([link removed])
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Research Fellow Kristian Fors explains why California homeowners aren’t incentivized to “harden” their homes against wildfires.


** MORE MEDIA ATTENTION
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** VIDEO
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** Liberty and Finance ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Judy Shelton argues honest money is both a moral and constitutional imperative. Read more » ([link removed])


** Mises Institute ([link removed])
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Thomas DiLorenzo, president of the Mises Institute, praises Retired Senior Fellow Robert Higgs’ Crisis and Leviathan in an essay that explains how FDR launched an age of inflation. Read more » ([link removed])


** Minding the Campus ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Richard Vedder explains how ironic it is that today’s “woke” institutions are named after … conservative tax cutters? Read more » ([link removed])


** Reason ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook argues SCOTUS should hold its decision in VanDerStok. Read more » ([link removed])


** North State Journal ([link removed])
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Research Fellow William J. Watkins, Jr., explains why Congress is (unfortunately) key to DOGE’s success. Read more » ([link removed])


** ThisOldHouse.com ([link removed])
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Journalist Stephanie Minasian-Koncewicz quotes Senior Fellow William F. Shughart II in a piece on tax breaks for homeowners. Read more » ([link removed])


** The Cincinnati Enquirer ([link removed])
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Journalists Jessie Balmert and Sheridan Hendrix quote Senior Fellow Richard Vedder on DEI: it is “racist, discriminatory, and anti-merit.” Read more » ([link removed])


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** Race & Liberty (Updated Edition) ([link removed])
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** The Essential Reader ([link removed])
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