Economic Progress

We’re counting down the days to Super Bowl 50, but we’d be more excited if we weren’t paying so much for the NFL’s stadium welfare. While the Panthers’ and Broncos’ on-field achievements deserve to be celebrated, taxpayers should not have to carry so much of the financial burden—especially since the NFL is rolling in revenue.

The American beer business has come a long way since Budweiser’s march of the Clydesdales, and Jim Caruso is one of the reasons why. In the early 1990s, after stints on Wall Street, in the hospitality business, and urban reclamation, he founded Flying Dog Brewery, which quickly became known for its quirky labels  with art […]

When the Michigan Liquor Control Commission rejected Flying Dog Brewery’s Raging Bitch beer label, company CEO Jim Caruso bit back —and won.

In an op-ed for RealClearMarkets, Stand Together Trust senior research fellow Dana Wade explains how rooting out cronyism in agriculture policy benefits taxpayers: President Trump’s new budget sent a clear message on agricultural subsidies: The time has come for Congress to stop subsidizing wealthy farmers. The administration planted the seeds for next year’s farm bill […]

On March 21, 2017, Stand Together Trust gathered a panel of experts in Manchester, New Hampshire, for a conversation on occupational licensing in New Hampshire and across the country.

In an op-ed for RealClearMarkets, Alison Acosta Winters, managing director of research and policy at Stand Together Trust, writes about the good and the bad of President Trump’s proposed budget: President Trump’s “skinny” budget was released last week and you’d think the world has already ended because it includes cuts to a number of agencies. […]

Dana Wade, senior research fellow at Stand Together Trust, writes in the Sun Sentinel about how taxpayer-funded business incentives rarely create the economic growth they promise: State programs that provide taxpayer-funded incentives to businesses consistently underperform. Despite this, the state of Florida continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on these sorts of handouts […]

Stand Together Trust hosted a CPAC panel with bestselling author and historian Amity Shlaes for a discussion about the rise of cronyism in America.

In an op-ed for Investor’s Business Daily, Dana Wade, senior research fellow at Stand Together Trust, discusses President Trump’s executive order to review the Dodd-Frank Act and what more should be done to further financial reform: President Trump recently issued an executive order to review Dodd-Frank, as well as financial regulations and other measures. This […]

In an op-ed for The Hill, Alison Acosta Winters, managing director of research and policy at Stand Together Trust, discusses how removing agricultural subsidies should be a priority for Congress: “If America is really serious about “draining the swamp” in Washington, then removing harmful policies and rent-seeking behaviors upon which corporate welfare and cronyism are built […]