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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.

April 24, 2025

Tickets and Economic Liberty

Secondary markets are an important component of a free market, and if you buy a legitimate ticket to a live event, you should be able to transfer it to whomever you choose, however you choose. But the Ticketmaster/Live Nation demogorgon wants to control that as well.

March 31, 2025

Coalition Letter: Tariffs Will Harm the Economy and Undermine the Trump Economic Agenda

IPI joined a number of free-market groups to urge Congress to argue that tariffs will be harmful to the U.S. economy.

March 26, 2025

Giving No Truck to Trucking

Policymakers need to begin considering new ways of funding transportation infrastructure that properly allocate the costs of maintenance and repair. We are intrigued by the idea of a commercial vehicle miles travelled tax (VMT-C) that would tax commercial vehicles by the miles driven, but which would omit passenger vehicles. 

March 21, 2025

As the DOJ Takes Shape, Housing Must Be Front and Center

The Trump administration can make housing more affordable by cutting regulations and civil rights investigations.

March 14, 2025

Texas Should Not Regulate AI -- Yet

Texas should hold off on regulating this potentially transformative technology. It’s absurd to regulate a technology like AI on a state-by-state basis. AI isn’t exactly intrastate commerce.

Texas should be a leader in innovation, not a leader in regulation. 
March 12, 2025

Let's Pay a Tariff!

Supplier: "Hey, John, we’ve got your order in, but I’m going to have to send you a replacement invoice."

John: "Why?"

Supplier: "Well, I have to add a 25% surcharge to the order."

March 5, 2025

Here Comes "Tarifflation"

Because tariffs, by design, raise the price of imported goods, tariffs are paid by U.S. consumers and businesses. It’s not inflation, since inflation is about the money supply, but it’s a price increase nonetheless—call it “tarifflation.”

November 20, 2024

Tariff Magic

Those wanting to impose across-the-board tariffs on American imports seem to think that tariffs are magic, but in fact they are guilty of magical thinking.

October 22, 2024

A vote for Donald Trump is a Vote for Elon Musk

The government could significantly downsize if Trump, through Musk’s efficiency efforts, were to eliminate unneeded agencies and employees, combine agencies where duties and responsibilities overlap and slash regulations and red tape, something Trump did in his first term and promises to do again.

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