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People point to tax burdens and over-regulation as the reasons for economic decline. But the reality is that high government spending is the precursor...
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For years the North Korean playbook was obvious to the world. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea wanted to be the center of attention....
In Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It (Yale University Press, 2023), economists Liran Einav (Stanford), Amy Finkelstein (MIT),...
When you think about “voter suppression,” you probably think about the kinds of restrictions that disenfranchised Black voters who lived under Jim Crow. Maybe...
Protesters in Brussels participate in the Walk for Your Future climate march ahead of COP27. United Nations climate conferences typically reach their peak just...
People point to tax burdens and over-regulation as the reasons for economic decline. But the reality is that high government spending is the precursor...
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women...
Thankfully, inflation is slowing down. Prices rose only 0.1 percent in November, yielding the lowest annualized inflation rate (7.1 percent) in a year. Core...
Reprinted from the Cato Institute One of the least enjoyable aspects of working is the process of actually getting to work. For nearly 85...
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) increased its federal funds rate target by 50 basis points on Wednesday, a smaller increase than in recent...
On this day in 1947, three researchers at Bell Laboratories created the first transistor, the little components that act as switches in integrated circuits,...
Freedom is a complicated idea. Since we can talk about liberty in the positive and the negative, it’s also a contradictory idea. In our...
Total nominal retail sales and food-services spending fell 0.6 percent in November after increasing 1.3 percent in October. From a year ago, retail sales...
The December 13, 2022 Consumer Price Index report had few surprises, at the headline and core level. Disinflation is occurring, albeit slowly. The S&P...
Initial claims for regular state unemployment insurance fell by 20,000 for the week ending December 10th, coming in at 211,000. The previous week’s 231,000...