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Ryan Bourne

@ryanbourne.bsky.social
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Economist, Cato Institute

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Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
NEW SUBSTACK: In defence of FIFA's World Cup ticket pricing system.
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Dynamic Pricing is Fair Play for the 2026 FIFA World Cup
On FIFA vs. Mamdani
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Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
NEW POST: Zohran Mamdani's War on Prices. open.substack.com/pub/ryanbour...
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Zohran Mamdani's “War on Prices”
The NYC Mayoral candidate's pricing policies would bring a high efficiency cost
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Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
NEW COLUMN: What Farage gets right on economic policy. www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
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What Nigel Farage gets right about economic policy
Reform’s commitment to fiscal discipline is open to question, but the leader’s home truths on family taxation and net zero deserve acknowledgment
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Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
NEW COLUMN: Members of Congress deserved their downgrade. www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
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No more excuses, US politicians deserve their ratings downgrade
Real interest rates have surged over the past two years, but instead of tightening their belts American lawmakers plan to borrow more
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Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
NEW COLUMN: Trump's drug price controls could give Labour and the NHS another headache www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
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Donald Trump’s drug price controls give Labour another headache
The US president’s order creates a new problem for Sir Keir Starmer. Will the UK pay more, or will patients lose access to treatments?
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Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
NEW COLUMN: Is the new right embracing degrowth economics? www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
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Is the new right embracing degrowth economics?
Populists such as Donald Trump and Nigel Farage demand your sacrifice in the name of nationalist ambitions. Their ideals would mean the opposite of progress
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Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
New piece for @capx.co: The grooming gangs intervention by Musk isn't a one-off. With America's vibe shift, Starmer is a boogeyman to the U.S. right, representing the politics they hate. capx.co/is-britain-r...
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Is Britain ready for America's new political vibe?
British politics is suddenly dominating conversation on X for all the wrong reasons. Tech titans like Elon Musk have stumbled onto the grooming-gangs scandal – a series of truly horrifying crimes that...
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Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The Road To Price Controls, my long read on the last four years of Econ debates. High inflation was primarily caused by excessive macroeconomic (monetary & fiscal) stimulus. The failure to accept this is grounded in poor analysis & fueling poor policy. ryanbourne.substack.com/p/the-road-t...
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The Road to Price Controls
How and why both presidential candidates declared a war on market prices during this election campaign
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Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
NEW SUBSTACK POST: Why Is Childcare So Expensive? ryanbourne.substack.com/p/why-is-chi...
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Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 10/08/2023
NEW COLUMN: I implore economists and politicians to stop using the fact of high debt levels post-WW2 as evidence that high debts don't matter today.
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Government debt is a historic problem, but this time the issue really is different
Fitch’s decision to knock the United States off its top AAA credit rating perch has ruffled economists’ feathers, especially in the Biden administration. Janet
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Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 09/08/2023
NEW SUBSTACK POST: There is an attempt underway by some American academic economists to rehabilitate rent control. Their case is based on bad theory and cherry-picked evidence. More here.
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Left-wing Economists Misrepresent Rent Control Literature
A new letter advocating national rent control cherry-picks its evidence
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Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 27/07/2023
My Times column today explores the economic pitfalls of the UK pondering new tax breaks for employer health services.
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Tax breaks for private healthcare? That’s the American way, and it’s not a good one
With 438,000 more people deemed long-term sick since early 2020, Jeremy Hunt’s aim to forge a healthier British workforce is commendable. Yet his purported solu
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