Drugs, Debt, and Masculinity
Plus: The editors wade into the conversation surrounding the modern dilemmas men face.
Plus: The editors wade into the conversation surrounding the modern dilemmas men face.
Even reduced immigration and job openings for miles aren't luring America's ever-growing workforce dropouts back in.
Government should not penalize investment, thwart competition, discourage innovation and work, or obstruct production.
"The fact-checking industry has become a partisan arbiter of political disputes," notes Phil Magness.
Without a tenable visa pathway, immigrant entrepreneurs will look to greener pastures—and the American economy will be worse for it.
If you believe that moving most of our chip production onshore is good for national security, you should labor for regulatory reforms rather than subsidies.
On streaming and the big screen, we're paying more for less, even as new ideas seem few and far between.
Plus: Libertarian Party drama, how rent control hurts renters, and more...
America can join with more free trade or it can miss out.
Attacking big firms just for being big could drive up prices.
There is seldom any meaningful accountability for government incompetence.
Several studies have found that the vast majority of costs incurred by increased corporate taxes are passed along to workers in the form of lower wages.
Though the American economy still looks bleak, there are silver linings.
"We want to attract international entrepreneurs and investors and become a financial center for the country and region."
China's economic reforms were bottom-up, not top-down.
Researchers admit there are absolutely no current examples of low-energy societies providing a decent living standard for their citizens.
Even the president's most entrenched political opposition cannot seem to find much to engage or enrage.
And the global upper-middle class doubled.
The H-2B visa allows foreign workers to fill jobs that native-born Americans aren't interested in.
Federal policies are subsidizing people's choices to build homes in harm's way.
Biden's proposed stimulus spending might give a modest boost, but in the long run it'll slow the economy.
In a year that will be remembered for a deadly pandemic that shut down parts of the economy and cost millions of people their jobs, here's one silver lining.
Plus: Trump's best work was done by others, how that Carrier deal is looking four years later, and more...
Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know documents progress and explains why it happens.
The danger of the virus can’t be considered to the exclusion of the need for jobs and prosperity.
A new study finds that taxes on wealth reduce long-run GDP by 2.7 percent.
When COVID-19 arrived in America, Uncle Sam was already deep in debt.
Get ready for more pain caused by COVID-19 as well as by the policies intended to hold it in check.
Some economists believe that a negative interest rate policy will stimulate the economy by reducing the cost of loans. That isn’t how it has worked in practice.
Unless we cause one by overreacting to Asia's changing political and economic landscape
Much about the COVID-19 outbreak has been unprecedented and historic, but until now it's been difficult to quantify exactly how serious a blow the virus would deal to the U.S. economy.
Historian Amity Shlaes on the good intentions and bad results of LBJ's war on poverty
Looking at better and worse projections.
While the 2017 tax cuts didn't deliver the results promised by Trump and his magical-thinking supporters, the administration has delivered some economic expansion, some job creation, and some investment growth.
Maybe Rome needed to disintegrate before the West could grow wealthy.
Plus: China boots three reporters, megacities are getting a smaller share of growth than they used to, and Dems gather to debate in Las Vegas..
The president’s plan calls for modest cuts made easy by unlikely growth.
A new report shows federal budget deficits pushing past $1 trillion for the next decade.
The Breakthrough Institute's Ted Nordhaus urges Americans to reject both doomism and denialism.
Trump's trade war has harmed the very industries and workers he aimed to help.
And what predictions will we shank in 2020 and beyond?
It will help us feel grateful for our lives.
Judged by his own yardstick, the president has failed because he hasn't delivered on his promises to voters.
The consensus view that the American middle class "is dead, dying, hollowed out" is based on an "incomplete reading of the data," says economist Russ Roberts.
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