Brent Skorup The Washington Post reports that some activists close to the Trump administration are urging the use of emergency powers to change…
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David J. Bier and Nicholas Anthony New reporting from the Wall Street Journal has revealed that President Donald Trump may soon deputize banks as…
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Walter Olson “Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims…
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The GSEs and the Secondary Mortgage Market—Three Questions I Wish I’d Been Asked During the Hearing
Norbert Michel On February 11, 2026, I testified before the House Financial Services Committee in a hearing titled “Homeownership and the Role of…
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Trump’s Draft Executive Order Would Be a Sea Change to How Americans Vote and How Elections Are Run
Stephen Richer Yesterday, the Washington Post reported that the Trump administration has a “17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election…
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Jeffrey Miron Many politicians believe that corporate share buybacks create “perverse” incentives for firms to prioritize short-term investments over future ones. The 2022…
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Benjamin Giltner The Pentagon and Anthropic continue to feud over the implementation of guardrails for artificial intelligence (AI). The Department of Defense insists…
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Walter Olson Number 21 in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: Federal seizure of Fulton County, Georgia, voting records was…
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Sore Losers at the Supreme Court: The Government Doesn’t Want to Pay Back Unlawful Tariff Money After All
Scott Lincicome, Nathan Miller, and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon The Supreme Court’s invalidation of President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs was…
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Ryan Bourne and Solveig Singleton Jared Bernstein, former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under Joe Biden, has resurfaced with a new…