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2 months ago | 
cathyreisenwitz.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz |Tahra Jirari |Gary Winslett
This Wednesday, February 26th, from 11 am - noon central I’ll be going Live in the Substack App (for the first time!) with guests and to discuss their just-launched newsletter and project: The Rebuild. We’re calling our talk “Getting Democrats back to basics.”Tahra Jirari is the Director of Economic Analysis for Chamber of Progress, in addition to writing for The Rebuild. I started following Tahra when she was at the Niskanen Center.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
medium.com | Gary Winslett
Counties with the highest cost of living shifted toward TrumpGary Winslett·FollowPublished inChamber of Progress·5 min read·--Co-authored with Tahra JirariThe stark reality of the 2024 election can be found in a single data point: counties with the highest cost of living shifted dramatically toward Trump, with the most expensive areas showing a stunning 5.3 percentage point swing in his favor.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
cato.org | Juan Londoño |Gary Winslett |Paul Matzko
Digital trade is globalization’s hottest area today, and gaming is a huge part of that trend. Millions of people regularly compete, collaborate, and conduct business in massive virtual worlds that seamlessly cross international borders. They are the new, fresh faces of 21st-century globalization, and they’re part of an industry that’s more than three times the size of music and movies combined.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
memo.com.ar | Gary Winslett |Luciana Sabina |Eddy Lavandaio
El comercio digital de servicios es mayor de lo que la mayoría de la gente cree y está llamado a ser aún más importante a medida que la tecnología siga avanzando. El aumento del comercio digital ofrece grandes ventajas a los consumidores, trabajadores, accionistas y ciudadanos estadounidenses.
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May 22, 2024 | 
medium.com | Gary Winslett
Solar and wind energy production capacity are accelerating at a remarkable rate, which is good because more clean energy production increases the supply of electricity, bringing down costs for consumers, helping reduce carbon emissions, and fighting climate change. There's a problem though. The places where it makes the most sense to build a lot of this new green energy are frequently not close to the places where people want to consume that electricity.
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May 8, 2024 | 
medium.com | Gary Winslett
A Biden Blueprint for Abundance & AffordabilityGary Winslett·FollowPublished inChamber of Progress·6 min read·May 8, 2024--3D printers making customized hearing aids. Photo credit: SonovoIn 2004, a pair of hearing aids cost an average of $3600. The median hourly wage was $13.83. So it took approximately 260 hours of work (six and a half weeks) at the median wage to pay for those hearing aids. Today, you can get a pair from Lexie for $799.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
medium.com | Gary Winslett
Getting Serious about Supply Through an “Abundance & Affordability” AgendaThe American Dream is predicated on rising economic prosperity. Economic prosperity requires abundance. And abundance is, fundamentally, a supply issue. How citizens feel about the economy is not purely based on their wages, it is based on what their wages can buy. Even before the inflation spike of 2021–2023, Americans’ wages weren’t buying as much as they’d like it to.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
lppapers.substack.com | Gary Winslett
Today, the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) officially goes into force and the American businesses that it is aimed at must start complying with it. You probably haven’t heard about it, but the DMA is the core of the EU assault on American technology firms. It specifically targets American businesses while being designed to apply to ZERO European companies.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
lppapers.substack.com | Gary Winslett
The 1950s were an economic boom decade for much of Europe with most countries seeing rapid economic and population growth. There were two European countries however that lost population during that decade: East Germany and Ireland. The East Germany case has an obvious explanation.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
city-journal.org | Gary Winslett
Last month, President Biden met Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco. It would have been the perfect moment for Biden to announce to Xi that the United States had completed trade negotiations with the 13 other countries working on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF)—a watered-down version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), from which the Trump administration withdrew the United States.
