As Congress begins a new session, the price of government expansion during the pandemic is coming into sharper focus. The…
Read More »Economic Performance/Indicators
By Richard Vedder and Robert Lawson Economist James Gwartney died Sunday at 83. He made important scholarly contributions, but his…
Read More »Updated Jan. 5, 2024 7:03 pm ET It’s an election year, so every economic report is going to be filtered…
Read More »The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear what could be a landmark property-rights case (Sheetz v. County of El Dorado)…
Read More »The latest NFIB jobs report finds plenty of openings at small firms.
Read More »Can a basket-case economy escape from a 25-year socialist decline? That’s the drama now unfolding in Argentina, where new President…
Read More »The central bank has only once changed its policy to help elect a presidential candidate: Nixon in 1972.
Read More »The country dodged a constitutional coup, but it still needs an economic revival.
Read More »A 1% of GDP increase in NATO defense spending is equivalent to a 24% increase in Russia’s.
Read More »We thought Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell would be wary of declaring victory over inflation on Wednesday, but he was…
Read More »