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US-China Truce on Trade War Is Good Progress
Over the weekend, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who led U.S.-China trade negotiations, announced a trade war between the two countries was “on hold.” This progress… Read More
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Over the weekend, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who led U.S.-China trade negotiations, announced a trade war between the two countries was “on hold.” This progress… Read More
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It doesn’t take a genius to realize the U.S. budget process is broken. The biggest reason for that is that too much spending is growing… Read More
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The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced the creation of an Office of Continuous Improvement to implement a lean management system. It’s part of Administrator Scott… Read More
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As summer approaches, the already-slow legislative production in Congress is grinding to a halt. Fewer and fewer members are willing to take a potentially controversial… Read More
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The left is sleepless in Seattle, working overtime to squander years of economic success. Seattle is, by many measures, one of the fastest-growing cities in America,… Read More
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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is a government entity that provides mandatory insurance to private pension plans. The PBGC’s multiemployer program deficit—estimated to be between… Read More
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The Heritage Foundation’s Daren Bakst appeared on The Daily Signal podcast on Wednesday to discuss the farm bill. Here is a lightly edited transcript of… Read More
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Over the next 10 years, our publicly held debt is set to almost double, going from around $15 trillion today to more than $28 trillion… Read More
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The farm bill, which the House is expected to vote on Friday, is full of subsidies and government handouts that should alarm conservatives. The Heritage… Read More
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Agricultural special interests try to make it sound as though touching even one farm subsidy—regardless of how unreasonable the subsidy is—will be the end of… Read More