Economy

Social scientists who study elections tend to assume that voters have public policy preferences and that parties and candidates design...

Last weekend, between dealing with Winter Storm Izzy and a torrent of work to complete, I squeezed in a viewing...

In 2021 20 countries pledged to no longer fund the development of fossil fuel power plants in other countries. This...

We are told that comparing current Covid policies concerning the unvaccinated to Nazi-era policies is outrageous. We are told we...

Reprinted with permission from the Online Library of Liberty Walter Williams (1936-2020) catapulted into my consciousness in the late 1970s....

In “Who killed L.A.’s streetcars? We all did,” (Los Angeles Times, 11/2/21) Patt Morrison rehearsed a famous question about an...

With respect to risk tolerance, if you’d asked me before March 2020, I probably would have described myself as “risk...

Everything you know about the Great Recession is wrong. That’s the hard sell in Scott Sumner’s new book Money Illusion:...

If 2020 was the year of lockdowns, it seems 2021 was the year of “footloose and fancy-free.” That’s the impression...

Sales of existing homes decreased 6.0 percent in December, to a 6.10 million seasonally adjusted annual rate. Sales are down...