I have been writing for years about the need to limit presidential power. When you don't, it results in things like this and worse. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...

Want to work with me at CEI? Can you spot a typo from 50 paces? We're hiring a managing editor to run our publications program. talentmarket.org/job-opening/...

I was on Bloomberg Canada this morning about the Jerome Powell mess. www.bnnbloomberg.ca/video/shows/...

Hey Republicans, price controls don't work. cei.org/blog/politic...

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WASH POST: “Corporate bankruptcies surged in 2025, rivaling levels not seen since the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession, as import-dependent businesses absorbed the highest tariffs in decades.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Actual 2025 tariff rates are, to date, far less than statutory rates, but the costs of the tariffs are mostly borne by the US – estimated tariff pass-through to US prices in 2025 is 94%. Tariffs on imports act like a 1 to 2pp tax on US manufacturing. brentneiman.com/research/GN2...

Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported? Noem: We have not deported military veterans. Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.

If you're willing to accept 1960s living standards, you can absolutely afford to support a 2025 family on a single 2025 income. People just don't want to do that. www.slowboring.com/p/you-can-af...

What did I miss in my list? www.thebulwark.com/p/jackie-cha...

From the archives: a short piece on Thanksgiving gratitude for human progress. From 2015, but the argument holds up. Happy Thanksgiving, all. insidesources.com/the-economic...

ICE agent when told he's about to arrest a US citizen. Direct quote: "I DON'T CARE."

Underrated thing that's been flying under the radar: ICE's hiring spree, by necessity since there are so few others willing and able, has been hiring away local cops, which infuriates the departments by causing manpower problems and is, ironically, removing the worst of the worst from their ranks.

Chicago: That is insanely disturbing. ICE kidnaps workers in broad daylight, leaving their equipment on site.

Human evolutionary biology seems to disclose a past that was horrific, particularly for women. Egalitarianism is a revolt against nature--and for human liberty. We must understand the past, because we must overcome it.

The FCC is an enemy of free speech. A new paper by my colleague Brian Rankin has some reform ideas to prevent politicians from weaponizing it against opponents. cei.org/studies/free...

Manufacturing has now contracted for eight straight months. Tariffs are working as well as most people not blinded by partisan politics thought they would. www.prnewswire.com/news/institu...

Employees at a Menards in Cicero Illinois have been instructed to delete video of ICE, according to people at the scene.

Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat.

Excellent piece on civil liberties by my colleague @iainmurray.bsky.social. thedailyeconomy.org/article/im-a...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Gotta log off for a while after this one. Just too much.

What if we gave the worst people in the world, the people who are just fundamentally assholes, all the power? What an experiment.

Parents don’t tolerate “But they do it, too” as an excuse from their children. What about when adults in positions of power use it? Paige Lambermont and me in @washingtonexaminer.bsky.social: www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-am...

In totally unrelated news, I am available to speak at any events your organization might be hosting in warm-weather cities in the next several months. www.nbcchicago.com/weather/stor...

In a wealthy neighborhood in Chicago, immigration agents hopped the fence of a US citizen’s home and tried to pull a construction worker out a 2nd-story window. Homeowner came home to blood all over his house. www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...

New final rule for DHS to collect immigrants' biometric data when entering or leaving the US. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

ICE detains mother dropping off child at elementary school—refuses to even look at her U.S. legal papers. "What documents?" agent sarcastically replies—holding up the folder. "The ones in your hands!" witnesses yell back. Madison Elementary School in Santa Ana, California.

Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Quoted on how the Fed's coming interest rate cuts and balance sheet policies might keep inflation high. www.thecentersquare.com/national/art...

Quoted in the Washington Examiner on Trump's statist economic policies. www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3860...

For the week that's 8 proposed regulations, 2 final regulations, 37 agency notices, and 183 pages. Less than a typical day's edition.

Today's Federal Register is light even by shutdown standards: 0 proposed regulations, 0 final regulations, 4 agency notices, 4 pages.

By @gelliottmorris.com’s estimate, between 1.5 and 2 percent of the population turned out for No Kings on Saturday. That’s pretty damn good. We need to do more but always remember how important it is to dispel any sense that the administration is feared and has things under control.

Quoted in Newsweek. www.newsweek.com/economists-e...

ICE stepped up activities in NYC today and New Yorkers were not having it. (Seen on @keithboykin.bsky.social threads)

Quoted on soybeans. www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/finan...

> musk gutted government spending 2025 has seen an unusually *high* increase in government spending, not an unusually *low* increase.

😂😂

👀 No Kings in deep red Knoxville, TN. This is just ONE stretch of ONE street. Thousands of grandparents, parents of young children, people from every walk of life came out to reject dictatorship. If I was a Republican lawmaker, I'd be very nervous about my job right now.

immigrant grocery store owner who voted for Trump to lower grocery prices and then got wrecked by tariffs. mfer you run a business called "Wong Kai Imports" what the hell did you think was gonna happen

There are at least 170 incidents where ICE held US citizens against their will. This includes 20 children, including two with cancer. That includes four who were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.

This year's economics Nobel winners are a worthy bunch. cei.org/blog/a-nobel...

Over at Reason we have a "puppycide" tag for cop-shoots-dog stories going back to 2012. Easiest way to get a normie 4th Amendment-pilled against the cops is to show them this stuff reason.com/tag/puppycide/

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

MSNBC published my response to ICE's baseless claims about me. "I am more interested in ICE officer safety than ICE itself is. ICE cares more about running up the deportation numbers than protecting its officers." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Sometimes I think about how I'm the one who was too much of a squish for some libertarians.

0 proposed regulations, 0 final regulations in today's 32-page Federal Register.