Casey B. Mulligan

Oct 29, 2024 | wsj.com | Kevin Hassett |Casey B. Mulligan

When the Biden-Harris administration was pushing its Build Back Better plan in 2021, 17 winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences signed a letter supporting the program, arguing that it would “ease longer-term inflationary pressures.” More recently, a slightly larger group including most of the same Nobel economists signed a letter saying Kamala Harris’s agenda was “vastly superior to the counterproductive agenda of President Trump.” A broader group of Nobel laureates in...

Sep 25, 2024 | nationalreview.com | Casey B. Mulligan

Aug 20, 2024 | wsj.com | Casey B. Mulligan

Much of America’s inflation since 2020 has resulted from one word: “Yea.” That’s what Vice President Kamala Harris said, twice, breaking Senate ties to advance the American Rescue Plan of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. These laws didn’t reduce inflation; they caused it. Together, they increased federal spending by more than $3 trillion.

Aug 20, 2024 | city-journal.org | Casey B. Mulligan

Under President Barack Obama, the U.S. government’s regulatory activity in areas like health care, the Internet, environment, and transportation was unprecedented. The hundreds of new regulations that resulted cost the average household roughly $26,000 over a lifetime, according to my new study for Unleash Prosperity, which uses a database of more than 5,000 federal rules.

Aug 7, 2024 | hoover.org | Casey B. Mulligan

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