Crutchfield Corporation, a Charlottesville-based and family-owned electronics retailer, has submitted an amicus brief in support of challenges to the president’s reciprocal tariffs.
The president somehow believes that tariffs can deliver wins for both producers and consumers. It is maddening and nonsensical.
The American AI industry doesn't need industrial policy, just freedom.
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to open city-owned grocery stores. The U.S. already has a few, and they're a cautionary tale.
The democratic socialist's proposed "public option" reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the market.
The specifics are still vague, but the White House is reportedly claiming that new tariffs will generate $1 trillion annually.
The European Union doesn’t need a five-year plan—it needs free markets.
The bipartisan embrace of industrial policy represents one of the most dangerous economic illusions of our time.
A half-baked idea that is just as dubious as Donald Trump's tariffs.
The first treasury secretary's plans would have created cartels that mainly benefited the wealthy at the expense of small competitors.
Revolutionary AI technologies can't solve the "wicked problems" facing policy makers.
Price controls lead to the misallocation of resources, shortages, diminished product quality, and black markets.
Revolutionary AI technologies can't solve the "wicked problems" facing policy makers.
Jakarta, Indonesia, shows why you don't need central planners to get pedestrian-friendly urban design.
Should there be any limits to a president's power to centrally plan the economy? Apparently not.
Presidential administrations from both parties keep trying to make "place-based" economic development work.
Nigeria's shantytowns are more functional than its centrally planned gated communities.
New York politicians got out of the way for once, and something beautiful happened.
New legislation would intervene in the credit card market to help businesses like Target and Walmart, who don't like the fees they have to pay to accept credit card payments.
Planners and politicians from Saudi Arabia to Scotland want to transform interconnected cities into isolated "urban villages" no one ever needs to leave.
The consequences of our obsession with urban dystopias and utopias
Most dangerously of all, they're starting to make their own central bank digital currencies.
Government officials broke the world, and we’re all paying the price.
If home insulation is a "critical technology item essential to the national defense," then what isn't?
Sometimes communist countries had to tolerate a little economic liberty just to survive.
What the pandemic has re-taught us about the perils of planning, the power of incentives, and the complexities of externalities.
A politicized vaccine distribution process intended to take price out of the picture has given the edge to the rich, connected, and powerful.
Let people join with the like-minded to reject officials and laws that don’t suit them and to construct systems that do.
More than 4,100 people died of COVID-19 yesterday across the country, but some New York medical providers are dumping vaccines instead of putting them in people's arms.
Circumstances change and the world may grow more complicated, but authoritarians never vary from their demand for more power over our lives.
The coronavirus shutdown might alter buying patterns, as more people flee tightly packed cities for suburban, exurban, and rural areas.
It's not the politicians who have the power to reopen America, or at least the parts that are now closed. It's individuals, families, businesses, and religious congregations.
In two separate op-eds yesterday, the senators pitch central planning as the best response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The CARES Act gives the federal government the power to take large ownership stakes in the airlines and dictate much of their operations.
The argument for getting rid of walking on metro station escalators demonstrates the flaws of central planning logic.
San Francisco gives its Planning Commission nearly unlimited discretion to deny or condition permits, making life hell for business owners.
Documentary filmmaker Nanfu Wang on the horrors of China’s one-child policy
Old ideas that have never worked are no way to foster economic growth.
Voters go to the polls Sunday, where two candidates will advance to the final round.
Charlestown can't seize the properties, so it's citing them to force them to sell.
But as long as distant authorities are in charge, that's impossible.
A perplexingly stupid op-ed against self-driving cars in The New York Times
Centralized top down planning of the climate would work as well as it does for economies.
John Crowley and Jason Robards look back at a festival of social planning.
