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.
Clinton's Economic Plan Is Bad For Michigan
Tom Giovanetti at the Institute for Policy Innovation says Obama is the first president in U.S. history not to have at least one year in office with a national GDP growth rate of at least 3 percent.
The Democratic Convention Will Be a Buffet of Vote-Buying and Phony Promises
This year’s convention is set to be a four-day effort to buy votes with taxpayer and employer money.
Trade Protectionism Is Crony Capitalism
If you oppose crony capitalism, and you should, then you should also oppose trade protectionism.
San Francisco's Tech Tax Is Not A Solution to Homelessness
If higher taxes were the cure for homelessness, California — and San Francisco, in particular — would have solved its homeless problem years ago.
Scholar Debunks Trump's Trade Speech
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s trade policy speech this week was misleading on the actual state of U.S. trade, a scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation said in a Rare op-ed published on Friday.
The Tangled Politics of Trump's Speech Blasting "Globalization"
"Dear GOP delegates: You cannot nominate someone who endorses these positions," Tom Giovanetti, the president of a free market think tank, tweeted, adding, "Trump would turn the Republican Party into the party of economic know-nothings."
Here's the President Donald Trump Most Resembles
The former Republican president who Trump most resembles isn’t Reagan, but Herbert Hoover, who served from March 1929 to March 1933, when his reelection bid was defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Obama and Clinton Attack the Middle Class
If Obama and Clinton actually worried about the middle class, they would drop their plans and get the government out of the business of choosing energy winners and losers. Because the ultimate losers will be the middle class.
The Swiss Said No To A Guaranteed Income - Conservatives Should Too
The Swiss rejected a guaranteed basic income, and the U.S.—and especially conservatives—should do so too.
President Obama Asked Us To Fact-Check His Recent Economic Speech, So We Did
He tells a good story about his economic policies—perhaps because no one else will.
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