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Small Donor Campaign Contributions, Big Signal: House Campaign Participation Under $500 | Rules & Results (Substack)

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Tracking Efforts to Shrink the Size of the Federal Workforce: December 2025 Update | The Unseen and The Unsaid

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- Jack Salmon
January 12, 2026

| Housing Housing
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Anti-corporate housing | Erdmann Housing Tracker

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January 9, 2026

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A Step Back from the OECD’s Two-Pillar Overreach | The Unseen and The Unsaid

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- Revana Sharfuddin
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Pizza, Pasta, Starbucks, and Bourbon: Recent Stories of Creative Destruction and Trade | The Econ Nerds

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five top things i’ve been reading (fifty-fifth edition) | the ends don't justify the means

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- Rebecca Lowe
January 8, 2026

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January 8, 2026

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An economist asks: What is the value of reading great literature like Eliot and Tolstoy? | The Common Reader (Substack)

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- Henry Oliver
January 6, 2026

| Government Spending Government Spending
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What Gabriel Zucman Gets Wrong About Venezuela | The Unseen and The Unsaid (Substack)

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- Jack Salmon
January 6, 2026

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The Fractionation Tax: How Federal Land Policy Costs Tribes Billions | Rules & Results (Substack)

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January 5, 2026

| Government Spending Government Spending
| Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

Why California’s One-Time Wealth Tax Won’t Work | The Unseen and the Unsaid (Substack)

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- Jack Salmon
January 5, 2026

| Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

Why Some Reservations Prosper While Others Struggle: The Data | Rules & Results (Substack)

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- Thomas Stratmann
January 2, 2026

| Financial Markets Financial Markets
| Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

U.S. Economic Outlook for 2026: A Positive Wave with Growing Fragility | FinRegRag (Substack)

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- Thomas Hoenig
January 2, 2026

| India Political Economy Program India Political Economy Program
| Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

What I read in 2025 | Get Down and Shruti (Substack)

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- Shruti Rajagopalan
January 1, 2026

| Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
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Ten reasons to read great literature in 2026 | The Common Reader (Substack)

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| Technology and Innovation Technology and Innovation
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Model Convo: Ryan Hauser | Machine Culture (Substack)

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December 29, 2025

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five top things I’ve been reading (fifty-fourth edition) | the ends don’t justify the means (Substack)

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December 28, 2025

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Small Donor Campaign Contributions, Big Signal: House Campaign Participation Under $500 | Rules & Results (Substack)

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December 26, 2025

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What do we owe each other once we become different sorts of people? | The Common Reader (Substack)

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December 26, 2025

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