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Supply-Side Trumponomics, Part Three: Regulatory Reform

As of 2024, federal regulations impose costs north of $2.1 trillion on the U.S. economy.

Tyler Watts
Supply-Side Trumponomics, Part Three: Regulatory Reform
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In previous articles, we looked closely at two of the three main pillars to President-elect Trump’s supply-side economic growth agenda: Increasing energy production and cutting taxesNow for the third and final pillar, regulatory reform.

As anyone who’s ever taken a decent Principles of Economics course knows, prices are determined by the “market forces” of supply and demand. Demand represents consumers’ preferences over various goods, while supply represents the “costs of production” businesses face in producing those goods.

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