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Conservative free trade groups praised the move.  “With the departure of Gary Cohn, many were concerned that an important voice for free markets would be missing from the administration,” said Merrill Matthews, a scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation. “Appointing Larry Kudlow should relieve those fears.”

The Institute for Policy Innovation is praising the expected naming of CNBC commentator and analyst Larry Kudlow to replace Gary Cohn as President Donald Trump's chief economic advisor (head of the National Economic Council).

President Trump has made a wise selection by appointing CNBC contributor, TV and radio host Larry Kudlow, whose creed is “free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity,” to be his chief economic advisor as head of the National Economic Council.

The RFS is the latest phase in Congress's decades-long support for the ethanol industry. The problem is that support has outlived its usefulness.

The Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) is honored to host acclaimed civil liberties attorney Alan M. Dershowitz in Irving on Wednesday, March 28, 2018, as the next of its Hatton W. Sumners Distinguished Lecture Series.

Democrats in Congress are working feverishly to restore the Obama rules by abusing a device called the “Congressional Review Act.”

"Even if one agrees that U.S.-made steel must be protected, the problem is that imposing large tariffs gives a green light to every other company or industry hoping to use government power to protect it from competition," IPI resident scholar Merrill Matthews said. "They will now descend on Washington, checkbook in hand. That's the swamp, or what's known as 'crony capitalism.'"

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction – and that may be proven true if a plan involving food stamps becomes reality. Still, OneNewsNow found someone who likes the proposed approach.

There’s no question the nation’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), aka food stamps, is past its expiration date for reform.

"Twenty states have sued the Trump administration asserting that the tax reform law, which eliminates the Affordable Care Act's mandate to have health insurance, makes Obamacare unconstitutional," said Merrill Matthews. "It's a brilliant argument.