Policy and Government

The New York Times reports Trump delivers a victory for free trade in new deal with Brazil.

The Brookings Institution shows how a visa ban cost the United States $100 billion in a single day.

The New York Times reports that the federal government is escalating its misguided “War on Tech.”

Monetary                                      

Reuters reports that Lael Brainard at the Federal Reserve is pushing for low-income lending policies that contributed to the housing crisis of the late 2000s.

Per Yahoo Finance, Powell speaks of a public-private partnership on digital currencies.

Spending

PolitiFact notes that Trump is mistaken on national debt.

Randal O’Toole at the Cato Institute calls Biden’s infrastructure plan “a collection of tired ideas that have consistently failed in the past.”