Adam N. Michel In the second half of 2025, US international tax policy has shifted more than at any point since 2017. Following major developments in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), the G7 agreed to a side-by-side agreement exempting the US from the OECD global minimum tax, which puts further pressure on the prospects of a successful OECD ...

Marcos Falcone For decades, Chile stood as Latin America’s success story, achieving prosperity based on free-market policies. Trade liberalization, the privatization of state-owned industries, fiscal responsibility, and the like had been consistently supported by both center-left and center-right administrations since the return of democracy in 1990 and until the first part of the last decade. This model turned Chile into ...

Michael F. Cannon This post offers data to support a claim I make in today’s Wall Street Journal that codifying the health insurance relief that President Trump issued in 2018 would make health insurance affordable for millions without increasing federal spending or disrupting Obamacare. Like the relief President Obama granted US territories in 2014 (which continues to this day), Trump’s ...

John H. Cochrane My colleague and friend Neale Mahoney writes in favor of price and rent controls in the Sunday New York Times, with Bharat Ramamurti. Neale is also the director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, of which I am a part. While SIEPR does not have “house views” and its fellows may write what they wish, ...

Jennifer Huddleston, Jeffrey A. Singer, and Christopher Gardner AI and Healthcare: A Policy Framework for Innovation, Liability, and Patient Autonomy—Part 3 Two laws, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), pigeonhole Americans into a one-size-fits-all medical data privacy regime. While adequate for the 1990s, these decades-old regulations now ...