The Power and the Money

More Debt, Less Problems: E.U. Debt is Good

Canada can break your heart and drive you crazy, but it provides a lot of good lessons for Dutch voters

Oct 19 • Noel Maurer

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September 2026

A brief history of American regulation

How regulation escaped the President, and then came back

Sep 23 • Noel Maurer

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Scholar-on-Scholar Debate: When Disagreement Comes from the Right

Academics need to seriously engage arguments from their right, or at least be nicer

Sep 13 • Noel Maurer

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There’s an Easy Way to Bring Oil Prices Down

Unfortunately, Texas is part of the United States

Sep 4 • Noel Maurer

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August 2026

Can the Trump-Venezuela Oil Deal Survive Trump?

Why Trump’s Venezuela oil deal may be both more legal and more durable than its critics believe

Aug 31 • Noel Maurer

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Enough already with the takes: here’s some real math on Venezuela’s oil deal

The numbers are surprisingly favorable to Caracas but rather harder to square with private investment

Aug 30 • Noel Maurer

The North American Deal Trump Isn’t Making

Canada and Mexico get freer trade; America gets control

Aug 29 • Noel Maurer

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There’s Oil in Them Thar Bolivarian Hills

Just not $17 trillion worth, more like $300 billion

Aug 12 • Noel Maurer

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The strange death of the declaration of war

Is not why Donald Trump was able to start Gulf War III on his own

Aug 8 • Noel Maurer

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Europe is a country

The European Union is just a federal government without an executive

Aug 2 • Noel Maurer

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July 2026

Canada was poorer than Italy and richer than Britain? Yes

What historical GDP per capita misses about living standards

Jul 27 • Noel Maurer

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The World Where China Pays Interest

Keynes’s lost plan for Bretton Woods and the alternate history it might have created

Jul 17 • Noel Maurer

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