August 6, 2026 | The Point
Katherine Van Dyck: Washington’s Anti-Market Crusader
Highlights: Under the leadership of Lina Khan, the Biden Federal Trade Commission (FTC) racked up a record of major failures. She lost high-profile efforts to block acquisitions by Microsoft and Meta. Her effort to block the Spirit-Frontier airline merger ended...
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August 4, 2026 | The Point
Tax Foundation Brings the Carried Interest Debate Back to Reality: Minimal Revenue, Slower Growth, and Thousands of Lost Jobs
A new analysis from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation provides new data estimating the negative economic impact of raising taxes on carried interest – an important contribution to the debate after the Yale Budget Lab – recently in the news for...
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August 3, 2026 | The Point
Digital Progress Institute: The NAIC’s Credit Rating Power Grab
A new analysis from the Digital Progress Institute finds that the NAIC’s credit rating framework is unaccountable, potentially captured, and bad for American consumers. Last week, Joel Lauren Thayer, President of the Digital Progress Institute, published an antitrust case study...
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July 29, 2026 | The Point
Oren Cass Wants To Raise Your Taxes
This week, the podcast Conservative Crossroads, hosted by the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Henry Olsen, held a debate between Oren Cass, the founder of American Compass and American Tax Reform founder, president, and CEO Grover Norquist on a simple...
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July 28, 2026 | The Point
Congress Is Right to Kill the OSHA Heat Rule
Highlights The Biden administration’s proposed OSHA Heat Standard was always a solution in search of a problem, a sweeping federal mandate that would bury employers in red tape while doing little to improve workplace safety. Last week, Congress took a...
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