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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...
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...
In the 2016 Presidential Election, Only 0.4 Percent of Donations Were Made by Donors Who Donated to Multiple Candidates
In the 2016 election, Donald Trump received few donations from people who had donated to other candidates in the Republican primary; the opposite occurred...
Attorneys General for Sale? We Should Focus on the Practice, Not Just on Trump’s Role
Trump is not the only, nor the biggest, player in the game of influencing attorneys general. Singling him out for opprobrium is aiming at the...
Donald Trump and the Political Economy of Real Estate Tax in the US: Q&A With Professor Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard from the University of Southern California explains how Donald Trump was potentially able to lose nearly a billion dollars of his investors’...
Campaign Financing Capture Index: Candidates on Fundraising Spree Attract Millions from Big Donors
With Marco Rubio out of the race, Ted Cruz is now the candidate with the largest fraction of political contributions over $5,000. Before dropping...
Donald Trump, Crony Capitalist
The sleep of reason produces monsters, at least according to Spanish painter Francisco Goya. What happens when the political reason is intoxicated by vested...
