Economy

There is a big push to implement wealth taxes, partly as a way of raising revenue, but mostly as a punitive measure to reduce inequality. In fact, our politicians have…

As the GOP’s presidential hopefuls formulate their national economic agendas, one question looms large: What are they going to do about the Federal Reserve?  America’s central bank has gone off…

From the late-1980s until the early 2000s, the Cypherpunks – a group of cryptographers, mathematicians, computer scientists and activists – worked to build what they referred to as a crypto-anarchist…

With the pandemic and the rise of climate alarmism, attacks on economic growth have multiplied. An increasingly larger set of pundits, academics, and politicians now embrace some variants of de-growth.…

In 2010, I had a student proudly state in my class that he was boycotting all BP gas stations in response to the disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Roughly two…

When is efficiency not efficiency? When the government claims to achieve it.  The U.S. Department of Energy has just announced a proposed rule to make dishwashers more “efficient” by limiting…

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced…

“Why is there so much poverty in America?” This question opens Poverty, by America, a newly released book by Princeton University Professor of Sociology Matthew Desmond. The book’s emphatic answer…

A small scandal has raised ire on social media after Twitter added the mention of “publicly funded media” under the twitter handle of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and National…

(Don’t miss Part 1 of this series, which we published May 25.) The barrage of mistaken claims about long-term economic trends affecting ordinary Americans is unremitting. So too, therefore, must…