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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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Largest Convenience Store In The World Opens In Texas

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What Buc-ee’s Can Teach Us About the Port Strike

Scott Lincicome / October 10, 2024

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Six-Plus Years of Incoherent, Ineffective China Policy

Scott Lincicome / October 2, 2024

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The Government’s War on Starter Homes

Scott Lincicome / September 26, 2024

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Ending the Other Subsidy Race

Scott Lincicome / September 19, 2024

President Trump Speaks At Whirpool Factory In Ohio

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Tariff Myths, Debunked

Scott Lincicome / September 11, 2024

Shelves of baby formula with sign about customer limits due to supply shortage, Publix, West Palm Beach, Florida

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When the Regulatory Cure Is Worse Than the Market Disease

Scott Lincicome / August 28, 2024

Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump Holds Rally In Bozeman, Montana

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The Campaign to Kill (Or, At Least, Really Annoy) All the Serious Economists

Scott Lincicome / August 21, 2024

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Bad Intel

Scott Lincicome / August 14, 2024

Vice Presidential Candidate JD Vance Speaks In Michigan

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Toast and Circuses

Scott Lincicome / August 7, 2024

Markets Open Monday Morning After Volatile Week

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Markets Shrugged

Scott Lincicome / July 24, 2024

#TaxTheRich Action With Billboard Truck At Sen. Ted Cruz’s Houston Office

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Central Planners Love (And Need) Higher Taxes

Scott Lincicome / July 17, 2024

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A silhouette of a man walking in a room with a statue

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The Shutdown Matters, but Probably Not for the Reasons You Think

Scott Lincicome / October 23, 2025

Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images).

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Trump’s New Furniture Tariffs Are (Almost) Everything Wrong with U.S. Trade Policy Today

Scott Lincicome / October 8, 2025

An unfinished electric vehicle sits on a production line at Chinese automaker NIO in Hefei, China, on September 24, 2025. (Photo by JADE GAO/AFP via Getty Images)

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Chinese Industrial Policy Is an Anchor, Not an Engine

Scott Lincicome / October 1, 2025

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

What Buc-ee’s Can Teach Us About the Port Strike

Six-Plus Years of Incoherent, Ineffective China Policy

The Government’s War on Starter Homes

Ending the Other Subsidy Race

Tariff Myths, Debunked

When the Regulatory Cure Is Worse Than the Market Disease

The Campaign to Kill (Or, At Least, Really Annoy) All the Serious Economists

Bad Intel

Toast and Circuses

Markets Shrugged

Central Planners Love (And Need) Higher Taxes

The Shutdown Matters, but Probably Not for the Reasons You Think

Trump’s New Furniture Tariffs Are (Almost) Everything Wrong with U.S. Trade Policy Today

Chinese Industrial Policy Is an Anchor, Not an Engine

Trade Is Among People—And Retaliation Can Be, Too

The Shutdown Matters, but Probably Not for the Reasons You Think

Trump’s New Furniture Tariffs Are (Almost) Everything Wrong with U.S. Trade Policy Today

Chinese Industrial Policy Is an Anchor, Not an Engine

Trade Is Among People—And Retaliation Can Be, Too

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