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Benjamin Powell

Benjamin Powell, a senior fellow at the Independent Institute, Oakland, California, is director of the Free Market Institute and professor of economics at Texas Tech University and co-author of “Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions.”
Free the Market
On Gas Prices, Simple Economics Trumps Biden’s Partisan Agenda
by and | Nov 9, 2022

President Joe Biden has an energy problem. He lambasts oil and gas companies as “war profiteers” and has threatened a windfall tax on their “record profits.” It’s true that earnings are up, but we don’t have to embrace the bogeyman…

The Nation’s Pulse
Will Blue State Refugees Ruin Red States? 
by | Dec 28, 2020

State-imposed lockdowns in California and other “blue” states have accelerated the already sizeable exodus of businesses and residents from their states. Texas, where I live and teach, has been among the main beneficiaries.  Each year since 2015, 100,000 more Californians have…

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