presidential election
Financial Trust Index: Americans are Angrier at the Current Economic Situation, Particularly Low-Income Whites
The latest update of the Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index survey shows that anger at the current economic situation has been growing among...
Donald Trump’s Economic Policies: Pro-Business, Not Pro-Market
Trump is eliminating lobbyists by putting them in charge of all departments.
After his election,((This post was originally published in Il Sole 24 Ore.)) it was...
Can Corruption Explain the Success of Donald Trump?
“Identity politics” perceived as favoritism may be the explanation for why Trump’s strategy of accusing the political elite and Hillary Clinton of corruption paid...
The Trump Tax
Will Donald Trump follow through on his populist campaign promises? The stock market can tell us a lot about the President-elect's economic policies.
President-elect Donald Trump broke...
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...
