Matthew Mitchell

AI Can’t Replace Free Markets by @Marian_L_Tupy and @PeterBoettke wsj.com/opinion/algori… via @WSJopinion

This is gross. Trump Posts Fake Video Showing Obama Arrest nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/…

The Soviets abolished weekends. Instead they created a rolling 5 day week so that factories were always open. Workers would get time off on different days so they couldn't be sure their day off would overlap with that of their spouse or friends. eyeondesign.aiga.org/a-failed-sovie…

"The looming danger is thus the zero-sum trap: the more people believe that wealth, status, and well-being are zero-sum, the more they back policies that make the world zero-sum." - @ATabarrok marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

"this is the precise opposite of 'America First.' This is what I'm gonna do: Impose a tax -- a very high tax -- on Americans who buy goods from Brazil in an attempt to influence Brazil's internal politics... why do we want to tax ourselves in order to get a former insurrectionist…

Just Out: Updated version of the "Chart of the Century" with data through June 2025. It should be noted that the consumer goods that have become more and more affordable over time -- e.g., cars, household furnishings, clothing, toys and TVs -- are either imported or subject to…

Regulatory burdens in Canada are increasing pretty monotonically. www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/pub/11f0…

Who wants to tell him that the import price index measures the pre-tariff price? If foreigners were eating the cost of (roughly) 10% tariffs, pre-tariff import prices would be down 10%. They're not. Therefore Americans are paying basically all of the tariffs.

Do Markets Value Fed Independence? An Event Study.

Some words go together like jelly and peanut butter… wait, that sounds super weird. A pair of words that is used in a fixed order in an idiomatic expression is called an ‘irreversible binomial.’ ‘Peanut butter and jelly’ is an example of an irreversible binomial. 🧵⬇️

👉Corporate welfare isn't socially responsible👈 That's the main point of a new report from @RichardMorrison and myself published today by @ceidotorg. In it, we propose a new way to think about interactions between governments & businesses in the name of "economic development."

This is easy. Progressives want courts to have absolute authority, provided Progressives are able to appoint all judges on all courts. It had to be a shock, after all those years of using courts to subvert majorities, when Progressives realized that GOP could appoint judges.

Setting aside the fact that this is beyond nuts, it’s also beyond his — or anyone’s — authority to revoke natural-born citizenship.

A quick argument against democratic socialism: If worker-owned firms are more efficient, they needn’t be mandated If worker-owned firms are less efficient, they shouldn’t be mandated

If the President is arguing that economic strength is a reason to cut interest rates, does that imply he believes that economic weakness should lead to higher rates? To be clear: Every economist believes the opposite. All economic logic says the opposite. Every textbook says the…

It’s called a 401K

Trump’s letter to Japan is pure clown show. Threats, bad grammar, zero diplomacy. He’s wrecking decades of trust over a trade deficit he doesn’t even understand. And for what?

Trade letter for the Heard and McDonald Islands just dropped.

New Substack post: Americans still believe in the American Dream — but they also believe tariffs are standing in their way. Here’s what the new 2025 @ArchbridgeInst Dream Snapshot shows 🧵👇