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March 22, 2025

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Senior Fellow Judy Shelton breaks down the period of economic transition under the Trump administration, calling for policymakers to empower individuals with economic liberty and protect them from overbearing bureaucracy.

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** Regime Uncertainty: Another Substantial Cost of Tariffs ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Abigail Hall calls for policymakers to abandon their silly and intensely detrimental games regarding trade.
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** DOGE-ing the FTC ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow William F. Shughart II argues it’s time to abolish the duplicative and unnecessary FTC.
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** The Department of Education—To Be, or Not to Be, That Is the Question ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Richard Vedder explains that ending the department of education would not be a mortal blow to education in America … in fact, he argues, education will likely improve.
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** Trump didn’t kill the penny—inflation did ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Robert Whaples predicts that as the Fed continues to devalue our money, people will realize that pennies will soon become fully worthless.


** MORE MEDIA ATTENTION
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** The American Spectator ([link removed])
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Policy Fellow K. Lloyd Billingsley praises Jay Bhattacharya and says he will be a welcome change at the top of NIH. Read more » ([link removed])


** The Washington Times ([link removed])
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Journalist Sean Salai quotes Research Fellow Alexander Salter to explain why inflation won’t cool until supply and demand realign. Read more » ([link removed])


** Inside Higher Ed ([link removed])
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Journalists Jessica Blake and Katherine Knott quote Research Fellow Benjamin Ginsberg on the Trump administration’s demands on Columbia University. Read more » ([link removed])


** Reason ([link removed])
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Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook predicts it may take the US Supreme Court to decide if people in the 18-20 age group can purchase a handgun. Read more » ([link removed])


** FEATURED BOOK - AVAILABLE SOON!
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** Let Colleges Fail ([link removed])
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** The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education ([link removed])
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** Edited by Richard K. Vedder
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Everyone knows American universities are more expensive and less impressive than ever. But no one has come up with a plan to fix them … until now. Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education is the hard-hitting instruction manual America needs in order to save its institutions of higher learning.
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