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CATO Institute vice president and celebrated economist Scott Lincicome analyzes economic policy, trade, and regulation through a free market lens, exploring how these issues impact everyday Americans.

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Remote Work Liberated Us from Unaffordable Places—and Might Do What Decades of ‘Place-Based Policy’ Couldn’t

Scott Lincicome / June 5, 2024

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Why Many Politicians Wage War on Prices

Scott Lincicome / May 29, 2024

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On Biden’s New China Tariffs, History Provides Good Reasons for Almost Everyone to Worry

Scott Lincicome / May 22, 2024

National Football League Bets On Las Vegas

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Sports Are Great, but Stadium Subsidies Stink

Scott Lincicome / May 15, 2024

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Political Sacred Cows Inflate American Grocery Prices

Scott Lincicome / May 8, 2024

Work Continues At The Collapse Site Of The Francis Scott Key Bridge

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The Baltimore Accident and Other ‘Supply Chain Crises’ That Keep Not Happening

Scott Lincicome / April 24, 2024

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Cheer Up, Millennials

Scott Lincicome / April 17, 2024

An New Energy Vehicles intelligent Production Line

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Getting the ‘China Shock’ Right

Scott Lincicome / April 10, 2024

New Minimum Wage Law In California Goes In Effect Raising Workers Pay To 20 Dollars An Hour

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California’s New ‘Fast Food’ Wage Law Will Probably End Badly. We Just Don’t Know How.

Scott Lincicome / April 3, 2024

As Mortgage Rates Climbed Last Year, New Housing Construction Boomed

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YIMBYs Are Winning Local Housing Battles, but Can They Win the National Housing War?

Scott Lincicome / March 27, 2024

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What Should America Do About Chinese Overcapacity?

Scott Lincicome / March 20, 2024

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Drastic Decrease In Tourism Deepens Las Vegas Area’s Economic Woes

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Trade Is Among People—And Retaliation Can Be, Too

Scott Lincicome / September 24, 2025

The Folkston ICE Processing Center on September 9, 2025, in Folkston, Georgia. (Photo by ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP/Getty Images)

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An ICE Raid in Georgia Becomes a Massive (and Unsurprising) U.S. Policy Failure

Scott Lincicome / September 17, 2025

Aerial View of a Tractor Tilling the Rows of Daffodils in a Farm Field.

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America’s Latest Farmer Crisis Is Government-Grown

Scott Lincicome / September 10, 2025

Intel Lays Off 4000 Workers In Several States

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Intel Again, Unfortunately

Scott Lincicome / August 27, 2025

Remote Work Liberated Us from Unaffordable Places—and Might Do What Decades of ‘Place-Based Policy’ Couldn’t

Why Many Politicians Wage War on Prices

On Biden’s New China Tariffs, History Provides Good Reasons for Almost Everyone to Worry

Sports Are Great, but Stadium Subsidies Stink

Political Sacred Cows Inflate American Grocery Prices

The Baltimore Accident and Other ‘Supply Chain Crises’ That Keep Not Happening

Cheer Up, Millennials

Getting the ‘China Shock’ Right

California’s New ‘Fast Food’ Wage Law Will Probably End Badly. We Just Don’t Know How.

YIMBYs Are Winning Local Housing Battles, but Can They Win the National Housing War?

What Should America Do About Chinese Overcapacity?

Trade Is Among People—And Retaliation Can Be, Too

An ICE Raid in Georgia Becomes a Massive (and Unsurprising) U.S. Policy Failure

America’s Latest Farmer Crisis Is Government-Grown

Intel Again, Unfortunately

Trade Is Among People—And Retaliation Can Be, Too

An ICE Raid in Georgia Becomes a Massive (and Unsurprising) U.S. Policy Failure

America’s Latest Farmer Crisis Is Government-Grown

Intel Again, Unfortunately

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