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Mar 31, 2026
$19 million to hide much worse.
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Mar 27, 2026
Prior to passage of the Trump Tax Cut in 2017, which was made permanent last year, dozens of major American corporate employers were moving operations and headquarters out of the...
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Mar 25, 2026
Here's how.
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Mar 25, 2026
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Mar 21, 2026
CTUP thinks it's taxes.
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Mar 19, 2026
Which is saying something.
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Mar 18, 2026
Iran is considering allowing a limited number of oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz on the condition that the cargo is traded in Chinese yuan.
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Mar 17, 2026
Here’s more evidence that when the left shouts “tax the rich,” they mean tax EVERYONE who earns a paycheck.
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Mar 14, 2026
With Iran bringing transit through the Strait of Hormuz – the conduit for 20% of the world’s oil – to an effective standstill, fears of a prolonged global energy...
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Mar 12, 2026
In 1911, the government trustbusters split Standard Oil into multiple state-based energy companies, which eventually were renamed Exxon (NJ), Mobil (NY), Amoco (Indiana), Chevron...
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Mar 10, 2026
Given the energy disruptions in the Middle East and the topsy turvy fluctuation in the price of crude oil, here are a few facts we thought we’d share with you on the energy...
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Mar 2, 2026
The figure below from Trump economists Kevin Hassett and Casey Mulligan shows what happened to the trend in worker pay and compensation over the past eight years.
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Feb 25, 2026
We will be releasing a study today on the real economic state of the union. Here is an excerpt from the report:
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Feb 24, 2026
We know that our Hotline readers have many divergent opinions of the 6-3 Supreme Court decision against President Trump’s tariffs. The three liberal justices voted against...
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Feb 20, 2026
UP co-founder Stephen Moore visited the Oval Office yesterday to brief the president on economic policy. The President cited this on his social media account on how wrong the...
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Feb 19, 2026
The environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion on the climate change industrial complex.
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Feb 18, 2026
Our latest UP policy study from senior fellow and ace demographer, Wendell Cox, finds that the more money the feds spend on urban transit, the fewer the percentage of commuters...
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Feb 17, 2026
If there were an award for the most counterproductive tax increase in modern history, it might be Washington state’s estate tax. Enacted last year, the rate is 35%, which as...
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Feb 13, 2026
The latest Congressional Budget Office forecast on debt and deficits over the next 30 years is plenty scary. It shows the debt as a share of our GDP catapulting to ever all time...
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Feb 11, 2026
We’ve been saying for months that the reality of the real economy has sprinted past perceptions. We’ve also made the point that Trump could launch a rocket ship economy...
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Feb 9, 2026
So some say.
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Feb 3, 2026
Our advice to incoming Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh is to move quickly on two institutional changes when he takes over the reins in a few months.
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Jan 31, 2026
The Senate needs to probe Kevin Warsh, the nominee to head the central bank, on his ideas about the creative role of Americans in fighting inflation.
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Jan 29, 2026
The new Census release also included five-year net domestic migration numbers, confirming the biggest demographic story of recent times: the sad, ongoing collapse of California.
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Jan 22, 2026
Much of the spending is on legislation from the past.
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Jan 21, 2026
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
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Jan 15, 2026
Since January 20, 2025, the second Trump administration’s foreign policy has driven global chaos and corruption, while undermining American allies, costing American taxpayers,...
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Jan 13, 2026
Policy matters. Biden’s first move as president was to kill the Keystone Pipeline and declare war on fossil fuels. Trump’s first move was “drill baby drill.”
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Jan 7, 2026
We noted yesterday that under the left’s hero, Nicolas Maduro, 80% of Venezuela’s citizens have fallen into poverty, and nearly half are in extreme poverty. Oil...
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Jan 3, 2026
Futurists, political analysts and other forecasters on the possible “Black Swan” events of the new year.