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For many Americans, the present economic circumstances feel uneasy, and the future feels worse. They direct their anxiety at other countries, which are supposedly taking advantage of us through trade, or at artificial intelligence, with its potential to upend jobs and concentrate power. Lawmakers respond by offering antitrust, industrial and trade policies.

The Washington State Legislature recently passed House Bill 1217, often referred to as the “Residential Landlord-Tenant Act,” or the “Housing Stability Act.” The legislation was delivered to Governor Ferguson on April 27 and is still awaiting signature.

Last month, the new Federal Trade Commission chairman Andrew Ferguson announced a new task force aimed at investigating behavior that harms workers. Although much of the focus seemed like a retread from previous chair Lina Khan, a renewed scrutiny of occupational licensing is welcome news.

America is now in a moment of choosing. Our markets are under siege from interventionist proposals on both the left and right, coupled with impending fiscal, entitlement, and regulatory crises bequeathed by a legacy of such policies.

A recently published opinion piece warns readers about the dangers of reining in self-serving licensing boards in Nevada. The truth is that this reform is badly needed in the state.

Vicky Dávila, candidate to the presidency of Colombia, unveiled this Thursday the economic team that, in the best Javier Milei's style, will accompany her in her project to “rebuild Colombia”.

Leftists constantly harp on the so-called problem of inequality—by which they mean inequality of income, wealth, or opportunity. Paul Krugman bemoans “the ever-growing gap between the rich and the rest.”1 Barack Obama says inequality is “the defining challenge of our time.”

West Virginia has required new health care providers to obtain state-issued certificates of need since 1977. These documents verify that a new facility offers services necessary to the local community before opening.

Ryan Bourne explains at first price controls seem to do the job, as the market-distorting consequences that eventually lead to shortages are ignored.

The Lord works in mysterious ways, an eternal truth illustrated by the latest electric power blackout afflicting Puerto Rico on New Year’s Eve. Merely the latest manifestation of the reality that the island’s electric grid is in desperate need of modernization, it is a reminder also that the sad saga of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and its massive debts now has gone on for over 10 years, in a continuing cycle of mismanagement and escalating costs that have prevented PREPA from accessing the capital market for the needed modernization.