Independent Institute Media Alerts

Date	Title
2/5/2024	“GigEconomy.Gov? A lesson in basic economics for the very confused.” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in The Orange County Register and affiliated Southern California News Group newspapers
2/5/2024	“Chicago, San Francisco Should Cut Real Estate Transfer Taxes” Senior Fellow Lawrence McQuillan Op-Ed in Bloomberg Tax Insights & Commentary, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg Law
2/5/2024	“Create Wealth Without Making Anything” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed in American Institute for Economic Research
2/3/2024	“Biden, Buttigieg, and Bullet Trains” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in The American Spectator
2/2/2024	“Not a Very Virtuous Virtue Signal” Research Fellow Gary Galles Op-Ed in American Institute for Economic Research
2/1/2024	“Obfuscating the History of Free Trade” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness cited in National Review
2/1/2024	“FDR’s Assault on Civil Liberties” Senior Fellow David Beito, author of The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights interviewed on The Future of Freedom Foundation’s Libertarian Angle
2/1/2024	“Regulations and the Balance of Power in Three Branches of Government” Senior Fellow Ivan Eland, author of War and the Rogue Presidency interviewed on WITC radio
1/31/2024	“BART Revamps Civic Center Station” Senior Fellow Lawrence McQuillan, author of the California Golden Fleece® Award “Crime, Grime, and Greed at BART” interviewed on KTVU-TV
1/30/2024	“In Los Angeles, ‘Squatters Have Rights, Too’” Research Fellow Lee Ohanian Op-Ed in California on Your Mind
1/29/2024	“The Truth about Banned Books” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness cited in The Free Press
1/28/2024	“How much longer can the US avoid recession?” Senior Fellow Steve Hanke mentioned in The Australian Financial Review
1/26/2024	“The California Exodus Gets a Gag Order” Policy Fellow Lloyd Billingsley Op-Ed in The American Spectator
1/26/2024	“1619 Project school curriculum is blasted for downplaying Muslim conqueror’s enslavement of 1,200 people and describing them as ‘servants’” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness cited in the Daily Mail
1/26/2024	“The shelves tilt left: School libraries have no McWhorter, but lots of Kendi” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness cited on JoanneJacobs.com
1/26/2024	“The Fed should not be such a prominent presence in financial markets” Senior Fellow Judy Shelton interviewed on CNBC
1/26/2024	“Housing Alone Cannot Solve Homelessness” Research Fellow Christopher Calton Op-Ed in MSN News, The Arizona Daily Star and several affiliated newspapers
1/25/2024	“Agency ‘Guidance,’ Interpretive Regulations, and Chevron” Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of The Right to Bear Arms Op-Ed in Reason
1/25/2024	“Two Cheers for the Bipartisan Tax Deal” Senior Fellow John C. Goodman, author of New Way to Care Op-Ed in Forbes
1/25/2024	“A Statue Worth Preserving; A Man Worth Honoring” Research Fellow Gary Galles Op-Ed in American Institute for Economic Research
1/24/2024	“The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace” Panel discussion on In Search of Monsters to Destroy by Senior Fellow Christopher Coyne on the The Hayek Program Podcast
1/24/2024	“Inclusionary Zoning Would Undermine Sacramento’s Recent Housing Reforms” Research Fellow Christopher Calton Op-Ed in the California Globe
1/24/2024	“The Truth about Tariffs” Senior Fellow Phillip W. Magness Op-Ed in Law & Liberty
1/24/2024	“The Decline in American Universities, 2011-2024” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in Minding the Campus
1/24/2024	“Arguments against the Death Penalty and Gun Control Have a Few Things in Common” Research Fellow Art Carden Op-Ed in American Institute for Economic Research
1/24/2024	“Remembering John Taylor of Caroline” Research Fellow William J. Watkins Jr., author of Crossroads for Liberty Op-Ed in Chronicles magazine
1/24/2024	“The WHO has shattered trust in public health agencies” Senior Fellow Scott Atlas, Host of the Independent Truths podcast interviewed on the Fox News Channel
1/24/2024	“Milei lays out the theory, but the road to economic freedom has not yet been paved” Senior Fellow Steve Hanke cited in Canada’s Financial Post
1/23/2024	“The New Deal’s Dark Underbelly” The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights by Senior Fellow David Beito is reviewed in Law & Liberty
1/22/2024	“It’s Time to Tax the Universities” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise Op-Ed in The American Spectator
1/22/2024	“Javier Milei’s Free Market Revolution” Senior Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa, author of Global Crossings Op-Ed in The Orange County Register
1/22/2024	“Critics say public universities are spending too much outside the classroom” Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise quoted in the New Hampshire Bulletin