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How U.S. Trade Policy Helped Construction Materials Costs Go Through the Roof

Scott Lincicome | CATO Institute | 03/18/2021

The Wall Street Journal reports that skyrocketing construction material costs are inflating home prices, pressuring homebuyers and threatening the booming U.S. housing and construction industries: Lumber, one of the biggest costs in home-building…

Canceling Keystone Gives OPEC A Boost

Kenneth Rapoza | InsideSources | 02/16/2021

For more than a year, it has looked like OPEC was on its last legs. Iran was shu...

What President Biden Can Learn From President Reagan

Bryan Riley | Inside Sources | 02/08/2021

One of the decisions facing the Biden administration is whether to ...

U.S. Trade Policy After Trump: Some Preliminary Thoughts

Simon Lester | International Economic Law and Policy | 11/08/2020

The past few days have been quite an e...

Tariffs Didn’t Fuel Revival for American Steel

Bob Tita and William Mauldin | Wall Street Journal | 10/28/2020

With the expanded production, about 6,000 jobs we...

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