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A growing economy creates jobs, raises living standards, maintains global competitiveness, and thus engenders positive attitudes and optimism about the future.

While many policymakers seem intent on focusing on either economic stimulus or austerity, IPI believes that the economy can grow consistently and at higher rates than we’ve experienced in the last decade, and we reject the idea that economic growth contains within itself the seeds of its own demise through inflation, the business cycle, and erroneous Phillips Curve assumptions. Therefore, economic growth should be elected officials’ primary policy goal at the federal, state and local levels, and it’s the organizing principle of our policy work at IPI.

Whatever limitations may exist on economic growth, they should not be self-imposed through counterproductive tax policy, overbearing regulations, ill-conceived monetary policy, trade protectionism, or hostility toward skilled and ambitious immigration.

February 17, 2022

Populism Is the Wrong Approach to Tech Policy

The United States has figured out the innovation equation, while the rest of the world has not: The heavy hand of government does not lead to greater innovation. That’s why tech populism, calling for more aggressive regulation and antitrust activism, is very troubling.

February 15, 2022

Biden Could Lower Prices by Ending Trump's Tariffs

President Biden is desperately looking for ways to address his inflation problem by lowering prices. Eliminating most or all of President Trump's tariffs would be a good start.

January 18, 2022

Expressing Concerns about S. 2992, the "American Innovation and Choice Online Act" to Senator Cruz

Senator Klobuchar’s bill is a very dangerous assault on the traditional consumer welfare standard the United States has wisely embraced during the past several decades.

January 18, 2022

Expressing Concerns about S. 2992, the "American Innovation and Choice Online Act"

Senator Klobuchar’s bill is a very dangerous assault on the traditional consumer welfare standard the United States has wisely embraced during the past several decades.

December 28, 2021

Mitch McConnell Should Win 2021's 'Politician of the Year'

McConnell got done what needed to be done—and with less drama than we’ve seen in the House. He limited the fiscal and political damage Biden’s agenda could have caused, and he bought some much-needed time on fighting Build Back Better.

December 22, 2021

Manchin's 'Intervention' May Have Saved the Democratic Party--For Now

Manchin demonstrated that a “moderate” Democrat can still make a difference and may have reduced the hit Democrats will likely take in the 2022 midterms.

November 23, 2021

Liberal Economists Got the Memo: Build Back Better Couldn't Possibly Worsen Inflation

Democrats are on a mission to dispel any notion that massive new government spending in their Build Back Better bill will let roaring inflation out of its decades-old cage.

November 9, 2021

Big CEOs for Big Government and Big Mandates

Bank of America's CEO wants the government to mandate green energy projects so big investors can pump in money and make out like bandits.

November 2, 2021

Biden's Policies Are Creating Jobs--For Robots

There has been a long-running concern that robots will eventually take the jobs humans could and wanted to do. It may turn out that in the Biden era, robots are simply taking the jobs humans choose not to take. 

October 13, 2021

Takeaways from Giveaways

Democrats hope that their massive federal spending spree would buy them votes. But it looks like all they're buying is voter anger.

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