At Least 80 Workers Are Losing Their Jobs at This Pennsylvania Steel Plant. Tariffs Are To Blame.
Trump's steel protectionism seems to have failed. Again.
Economics
How Secure is Social Security? A Debate
Gene Epstein and Teresa Ghilarducci debate whether the social security trust fund exists or is merely an accounting fiction.
Rand Paul Plan Aims to Attract More High-Skilled Immigrants
Plus: Trump drops Census citizenship quest, veterans says wars weren't worth it, millennials make good nuns, and more...
The Global Trade War Comes Full Circle
Economic reality is always more complex than politicians pretend it is.
The U.S. Soccer 'Pay Gap' Is About More Than Just Sexism
The U.S. women's soccer team deserves better, but mandating equal pay isn't the answer.
CBO Says $15 Federal Minimum Wage Will Cost 1.3 Million Jobs
The Congressional Budget Office says 17 million workers will see higher paychecks, but the poorest and least skilled are likely to be left out.
Trump's Trade War Continues To Crush Soybean Farmers
Soybean exports to China have fallen by 74 percent in the past year.
Socialists Are Scary, but Capitalists Are Their Own Worst Enemies
New research shows that business leaders who benefit from government favoritism are more comfortable with government intervention into markets.
California's Politically Powerful Unions Aim To Crush Sharing Economy
A state Supreme Court ruling sets a new, higher bar for determining when workers can count as independent contractors rather than employees. It might ruin some online firms' business models.
Meet the New President of the Foundation for Economic Education, America's Oldest Free Market Think Tank
Raised in Lithuania during the final years of the Cold War, Zilvinas Silenas wants to bring libertarian ideas to young people in the 21st century.
Trump's Militarized Fourth of July Parade Makes America Less Great
We're getting a military parade because Donald Trump wants one. The arguments for leaving our tanks at their bases are far more numerous, significant, and powerful.
Trump Is Losing His Own Trade War
American businesses and consumers are drowning in a sea of high tariffs.
Trump's Proposed Tariffs on Tea and Fireworks Are Doubly Awful on Independence Day
Tariffs on tea have never caused any problems, right?
Social Security Is Totally Secure. Or Is It? A Debate.
A Soho Forum debate over the trustworthiness of the $3 trillion trust fund
Pennsylvania Passes Clean Slate Act, Will Seal More Than 30 Million Criminal Records
The law will reopen critical channels to employment and housing that might otherwise be closed.
New Law Stops IRS From Stealing People's Money Simply Because It Deems Their Bank Deposits Suspiciously Small
A provision of the Taxpayer First Act requires evidence of other illegal activity for seizures based on "structuring" and mandates prompt hearings.
Trump's Trade War Is Already Unpopular. New Tariffs on Scotch Whisky, Italian Pasta, and French Cheese Won't Help.
Even a majority of Republicans now tell pollsters that the trade war is costing Americans, and there's no easy justification for targeting European cultural goods.
Betsy Ross Is Canceled
Plus: Conditions in migrant detention centers "worse than we ever could have imagined" say Democratic lawmakers, Vox discovers anarchist gun owners, and more...
Hong Kong Protests Show Dangers of a Cashless Society
Many digital payments can be tracked, potentially assisting an authoritarian crackdown.
Deceptive Data Make Georgia's Film Tax Credit Program Look Less Wasteful
Economists debunk the state government's claims about the size of the film industry.
Here's Every Single Time Someone Scapegoated Profit During the Dem Debates
Several candidates seem to view profit as one of the biggest threats facing America.
Democrats Are Terrified of Their Own Non-Socialism
Those who disagree with Elizabeth Warren's economics tried really hard not to say so during the Dems' first presidential debate
Trump's Tariff Powers Need Limits. Congressional Democrats Just Introduced a Bill To Set Some.
"Working families should not have to pay the price for the president's reckless use of this tariff authority," says Rep. Stephanie Murphy, a Florida Democrat.
The One Great Moment From Last Night's Democratic Debate—and the One From Tonight's
Tulsi Gabbard's defense of non-interventionism was electrifying. Tonight's fight between Biden and Sanders over capitalism and socialism will be, too.
Will Any Democratic Debater Acknowledge Math?
Early debates actually tell us a good deal about where political parties are heading.
Maryland's Health Care Price Controls Aren't Solving Problems—They're Creating Them
Hospitals gamed the system and costs didn’t come down.
Man, This CBO Report About 'Unprecedented' Debt Levels Is a Bummer
The national debt will hit 140 percent of GDP before the end of the 2040s, and that's the optimistic scenario.
'Temporary' Solar Tax Credits Have Persisted For Decades. Now Senate Dems Can't Let Them Go.
There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solar investment tax credit.
(We Didn't) Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran…Yet
Parsing Trump's foreign policy, economic theories, and ideological relationship with the 2020 Democratic field
Two Solar Companies Said Tariffs Would Save Their Businesses. They Went Broke Anyway.
Who could have seen that coming? Well, lots of people did—but the U.S. International Trade Commission and President Trump didn't listen.
Kansas City Uses Bad Research To Justify Corporate Welfare
A local development study didn't evaluate whether government incentives had anything to do with a business's decision to invest.
Lives Ruined for Petty Crimes
A new book explores how America's criminal justice system heaps debts on those who can't possibly pay.
Central Planning Is Poisonous to Innovation
Old ideas that have never worked are no way to foster economic growth.
As U.S. Steel Slows Production, It's Time To Stop Pretending Tariffs Work
The biggest American steelmaker says there has been reduced demand for their products in recent months, probably because they raised prices after Trump slapped tariffs on foreign steel.
Apparently, Bernie Sanders Doesn't Know the Difference Between Revenue and Profit
This guy wants to run the economy?
Facebook's Libra 'Cryptocurrency' Aims to Disrupt Payments. Bitcoin Aims to Disrupt Government Power.
Mark Zuckerberg’s latest venture won't compete with Satoshi Nakamoto’s project for undermining central banking, tyranny, and the financial surveillance state.
Deficit Politics May Have Gone Away, but Debt and Deficits Are Worse Than Ever
The federal budget situation used to be an emergency. What happened?
New Balance Planned To Open a New Sneaker Factory in America. Trump's Tariffs Might Prevent That From Happening.
Trade is necessary, even for American companies making American products in American factories.
Stossel: In Defense of Capitalism
People acting in their own self-interest created modern prosperity, says Ayn Rand Institute's Yaron Brook.
The Treasury Department Is Entrenching Trump's Nonsense View of Trade Deficits
In a new report, the Treasury Department declares it will begin scrutinizing any nation that runs a bilateral trade imbalance of more than $40 billion with the United States
Mick Mulvaney Turns His Back on Fiscal Responsibility
"Show me the majority for cutting spending," he says.
Rising Conservatives Are as Hostile to Freedom as the Leftists They Disdain
Republicans, who have gleefully warned the public about Democratic flirtations with socialism, shouldn't be quick to gloat given the emergence of an anti-freedom movement on the Right.
Biden Is Turning Trump's Trade War Into a Major Campaign Issue. More Democrats Should Follow His Lead.
A majority of Democratic voters now favor free trade. Some of the party's presidential candidates are starting to notice.
Trump's Tariffs Hurt American Freedom and Prosperity
Each tariff the president imposes is a tax on Americans.
Trump's Deep Misunderstanding of Trade Policy Is Threatening the American Economy
The president's bizarre and counterproductive obsession with tariffs could spell economic catastrophe.
