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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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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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I Make Great Hot Sauce. State Regulations Ensure You’ll Never Taste It.

Scott Lincicome / March 13, 2024

Wendys will use AI-Powered Chatbots for Drive-Thru Orders

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Trivial Pursuits

Scott Lincicome / March 6, 2024

Plus size multi racial woman working in home office

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Remote Work Is Here to Stay, Mostly for the Better

Scott Lincicome / February 28, 2024

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Unfrozen Caveman Tucker

Scott Lincicome / February 21, 2024

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Aluminum Tariff Follies

Scott Lincicome / February 14, 2024

High Gas Prices Impact Food Delivery Drivers

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Collateral Damage in the War on ‘Gig Work’

Scott Lincicome / February 7, 2024

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Blame Bad Law for Biden’s Bad LNG Pause

Scott Lincicome / January 31, 2024

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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

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

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?

I Make Great Hot Sauce. State Regulations Ensure You’ll Never Taste It.

Trivial Pursuits

Remote Work Is Here to Stay, Mostly for the Better

Unfrozen Caveman Tucker

Aluminum Tariff Follies

Collateral Damage in the War on ‘Gig Work’

Blame Bad Law for Biden’s Bad LNG Pause

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

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

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

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

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