New Cato study on exploring wealth inequality. Want Americans to buy U.S. products? Dump the Jones Act. Government assets fall apart.

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November 6, 2019

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Exploring Wealth Inequality ([link removed] )

Many political leaders and pundits consider wealth inequality to be a major economic and social problem. They complain about a shift of wealth to the top at everyone else’s expense and about plutocrats dominating policymaking in Washington. But is wealth inequality the crisis that some people believe? In a new study, Cato scholars Chris Edwards and Ryan Bourne examine six aspects of wealth inequality and discusses the evidence behind these claims.

- Exploring Wealth Inequality ([link removed] )

By Chris Edwards and Ryan Bourne

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Want Americans to Buy U.S. Products? Dump the Jones Act. ([link removed] )

Just as the U.S. should not shun goods made abroad, neither should the government effectively place its thumb on the scale in favor of imports through misguided policies such as the Jones Act.

- Want Americans to Buy U.S. Products? Dump the Jones Act. ([link removed] )

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