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E.J. Antoni
E.J. Antoni, PhD, is a public finance economist and the Richard F. Aster research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget.
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May 20, 2026
1 in 3 Dollars Earned Goes to Taxes. Why?
Commentary Most Americans were glad to get another Tax Day behind them this month. It’s galling to hand ...
Opinion
April 30, 2026
Will an Alaskan Tax Hike Make the Oil Crisis Worse?
Commentary As Americans grapple with painful prices at the pump amid a global oil crisis, some Alaskan lawmakers ...
Opinion
April 21, 2026
SOTU: The Economy Is Improving for Americans
Commentary The U.S. economy is strong. That sounds simple, but in the current political climate, simple truths have ...
Opinion
February 26, 2026
Japan’s Crash Is Our Canary in the Coal Mine
Commentary On Tuesday, Jan. 20, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stock index crashed by 870 points, the biggest ...
Opinion
January 26, 2026
How Canada’s Only Leverage Over America Disappeared in an Instant
Commentary I’d like to talk today about the recent events in Venezuela, specifically from an economic point of ...
Opinion
January 19, 2026
Trump Provides Solution to Housing Crisis
Commentary President Donald Trump announced on Jan. 7 plans to ban institutional investors from buying up homes and renting them back to ...
Opinion
January 15, 2026
How We Can Finally Overcome the Affordability Crisis
Commentary Disapproval of the state of the economy is widespread today, despite many indicators improving since the start ...
Opinion
December 13, 2025
‘Green’ Housing Mandates Push Americans Further Into the Red
Commentary Home prices across the nation are back up near a record high. That makes this a particularly bad ...
Viewpoints
May 10, 2024
Latest Job-Killing Policy Spells More Bad News for Californians
Commentary California’s list of public policy failures was already long, but hiking its minimum wage to $20 per ...
Viewpoints
April 25, 2024
Automobile ‘Bidenvilles’ Are the New Shantytowns Amid US Housing Affordability Crisis
Commentary When people couldn’t afford housing during the Great Depression, they built shantytowns from scrap construction supplies and named ...
Viewpoints
April 4, 2024
How the Federal Reserve Created an American Caste System
Commentary In 1913, Woodrow Wilson and his progressives promised that the Federal Reserve would avert both depressions and inflation, while ...
Viewpoints
March 29, 2024
Government Gets Fatter as Americans Rack Up Record Credit Card Debt
Commentary While the White House lectures on the strength of the economy, Americans are drowning in credit card debt, which ...
Viewpoints
March 12, 2024
The Uniparty Is Only a Few Steps Away From Gutting the US Dollar
Commentary America’s political establishment has less respect for the U.S. dollar than our foreign adversaries. That was made ...
Viewpoints
February 27, 2024
Biden’s Low Marks on Economy Reflect Reality
Commentary For all the White House’s bragging about the strength of the economy, most Americans still don’t approve of ...
Viewpoints
February 22, 2024
Understated by Feds, Through-the-Roof Housing Inflation Is Crushing Would-Be Homeowners
Commentary Business headlines say that inflation is down, yet countless Americans are struggling, particularly with finding somewhere affordable ...
Viewpoints
February 15, 2024
How Washington Regulation Strangled American Manufacturing
Commentary U.S. Steel, the world’s first billion-dollar company, is being sold for scrap. And Washington made it happen. ...
Analysis
February 12, 2024
Caught in Crosshairs of a Cost-of-Living Crisis
Commentary President Joe Biden recently took to a stage in North Carolina to tout his economic agenda, which ...
Viewpoints
February 8, 2024
Lipstick on a Pig: Yellen Defends the Indefensible in Bidenomics
Commentary Few academics have fallen as far from grace as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Instead of composing lectures from her ...
Analysis
January 14, 2024
What President-Elect Javier Milei of Argentina Means for US
Commentary Argentina’s troubled economy has led to the victory of President-elect Javier Milei, whom many have branded a radical. Given ...
Viewpoints
December 8, 2023
How Bidenomics Has Given Us Most Expensive Thanksgiving Ever
Commentary Just in time for the holiday season, Bidenomics has managed to deliver the costliest Thanksgiving in American history. What is perhaps ...
Viewpoints
November 23, 2023
Home Prices: From American Dream to American Nightmare
Commentary Home ownership was supposed to be the American dream, the thing to which the entire middle class ...
Analysis
October 24, 2023
Is America Nearing Fall of Rome Status?
Commentary America’s financial mismanagement has gotten so bad that some say our country’s decline is now inevitable, drawing ...
Viewpoints
October 9, 2023
UAW, Automakers Should Fight Washington, Not Each Other
Commentary In October 2021, I warned that the inflationary fallout from Bidenomics would lead to an increase in labor unrest and ...
Viewpoints
October 2, 2023
Time to End the Fed and Its Mismanagement of Our Economy
Commentary Every major economic downturn of the past 110 years bears the mark of the Federal Reserve. In ...
Viewpoints
September 29, 2023
Deliberately Distorting Data to Downplay Devastation of Bidenomics
Commentary Jared Bernstein has once again demonstrated his complete ignorance of both economic theory and fact—an alarming trait for the ...
Analysis
September 18, 2023
More Americans Jobless Than Biden Admin’s Official Unemployment Rate Shows
Commentary The labor market is nowhere near as strong as it appears. If that sounds surprising, it’s because ...
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September 13, 2023
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