Economy

Real gross domestic product rose at a revised 2.9 percent annualized rate in the third quarter versus a 0.6 percent rate of decline…

The late, great Julian Simon spent decades battling intellectually against biologists and zoologists who were convinced that human population growth, if governments did…

The boundaries between physical and digital spheres are collapsing. The digital sharing of personal information is now embedded into the economic and relational…

Reprinted from the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Jumping to conclusions is sometimes a big mistake. I recently became puzzled and…

I expected pushback against the thesis of my paper (co-authored with Michael Makovi) “The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the Effect of the Russian…

The Consumer Confidence Index from The Conference Board fell for the second consecutive month in November. The composite index decreased by 2.0 points,…

On August 9, 2022, President Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law, stating that it would make “historic investments that poise…

Reprinted from the Foundation for Economic Education With its humble beginnings being worn by Croatian mercenaries in the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), its subsequent promotion…

Every time I travel, I’m overwhelmed by the mind-boggling complexity of the endeavor and the fact that no one is in charge. Travel…

If we want to understand economic fluctuations and business cycles, we need a disciplined way of thinking about how the nominal economy (denominated…