Weekly Update - April 18, 2025

An illustration for this Axios article. Lina Khan has unmoored antitrust enforcement from the consumer welfare standard, and now J.D. Vance is using it for his ends, to the dismay of the neo-Brandeisians.

Last Week's Posts

Oren Cass's Case for Trade

A good faith and objective consideration of the approach Trump's trade team used to set tariff rates

How I'd Argue Meta v FTC

A cursory reaction to the arguments in the FTC trial against Meta and how I'd approach the case

ACA Failures and the Limits of Technocracy

A summary of three overlooked, but major failures of the ACA and how they show the difficulty of regulating a complex industry

The Other Lesson of I, Pencil

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Tariff Calculus

An explanation of how Trump's team determined the tariff rates and what they got wrong

Trump's Tariffs and the Major Questions Doctrine

An argument that the Supreme Court's Recent Major Questions Doctrine opens the door for a legal challenge to his tariffs

Hopeless?

The ACA Supreme Court Case highlighted fundamental disagreements between parties and ideologies that may not be reconcilable.

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What Happened To Never-Needed Regulations
Ryan Young CEI

The Census Defines the Poverty Rate Up
Phil Gramm; John Early WSJ

Another Wrong Way to Measure Poverty
Phil Gramm; John Early WSJ

The 3 Myths Supporting NIH Funding
Zachary R. Caverley Reason

Thanks to De Minimis Exemption, Forever 21 Won't Be Last Bankruptcy
Wilmer Leon RealClearMarkets

Reconciling the Official Poverty Measure and CBO’s Distributional Analysis of Household Income
CBO CBO

A Win-Win Proposal to Fix Social Security
Tyler Watts EconLog

Argentina's DOGE
Alex Tabarrok Marginal Revolution

Don't let the next crisis grow the government—again
Clyde Wayne Crews CEI

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