presidential candidates
We Must Stop Applying Economic Standards to Political Leadership
Joseph Schumpeter, ironically remembered for glorifying the entrepreneur’s penchant for creative destruction and innovation, actually warned against exalting entrepreneurs as the redeemers of inefficient political...
American Oligarch: Michael Bloomberg Reveals His One Remaining Path to the Democratic Nomination
Michael Bloomberg's only real path to the nomination was always a contested convention, where he could be able to further leverage his wealth and...
Who Won the South Carolina Democratic Debate? The ProMarket Panel's Analysis
Is Bernie Sanders inevitable, and is Michael Bloomberg doomed? Which candidate would be best suited to avoid a recession in the US? A ProMarket...
Why Michael Bloomberg’s Run for President Creates an Unprecedented Media Problem
The first effect of Michael Bloomberg’s campaign and of his conflicts of interest is to reduce the 2020 candidates’ accountability: one of the world's...
How Will Antitrust Policy Look Under President Trump? Q&A with The Capitol Forum’s Teddy Downey
Will President Trump go after Silicon Valley, or block the AT&T-Time Warner merger? Teddy Downey, CEO and executive editor of The Capitol Forum, explains how...
One Happy Byproduct of 2016: An Overdue Tax Policy Debate
Rich people are much richer than they used to be in large part because they pay much less tax than they used to. This—not...
140 Years of Antitrust: How the Basic Paradigms of Competition, Regulation, and Antitrust Have Changed Since WWII
The final installment of our four-part series on the history of antitrust language in American political discourse.
In the fourth and final installment of...
Campaign Finance in the 2016 Election: With Federal Reform Unlikely, the Use of Super PACs has Become More “Brazen”
While it is still too early to draw any decisive conclusions regarding the role money played during this election cycle, some trends can already...
Finance and Healthcare Bound to Gain from Clinton’s Presidency
Hillary Clinton has promised to be tough on finance and pharmaceutical companies. So why do financial and healthcare stocks go up when the probability...
Wealthier Donors Prefer Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton’s donors are wealthier than Donald Trump’s, at least judging from the value of their homes. The median home price of Clinton’s supporters...
