California is home to numerous profitable industries, but many of the state’s residents struggle to survive under the weight of big government. Case in point: excessive regulations have suffocated the state’s housing market and led…
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Introduction People in financial markets and in the media regularly track Federal Reserve announcements and forecast what the Fed’s interest rate target will be in the future. But when people speak of the Federal Reserve…
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Executive Summary In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act greatly expanded government intervention in the economy. Among many hasty creations of March 2020 were the Federal Reserve…
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Economy
Have Mount Laurel Obligations Made New Jersey Housing More Affordable? A Synthetic Control Analysis of Housing Supply and Cost
This paper investigates the effect of affordable housing obligations in New Jersey on cost of living, cost of housing, and actual housing production. New Jersey’s Mount Laurel court cases established a doctrine whereby municipalities must… -
Strategic Trade Liberalization and the United States’ Future in the Asia-Pacific Region Executive Summary Since the nineteenth century, the United States has been a significant economic and political presence in the Asia–Pacific region. That has…
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Introduction Medicaid, Title XIX of the Social Security Act, is a joint federal-state program that finances health care to the poor.[1] When it was first signed into law, Medicaid eligibility was limited to low-income children,…