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The 2025 Thanksgiving season arrives with an unwelcome development: after last year’s brief and much-needed period of easing in several Thanksgiving staples, prices have...
Can regulation work when a market changes faster than a case can be litigated? The Justice Department filed its antitrust case against Google in...
Introduction The gold standard was a monetary system that defined a unit of a nation’s currency as a fixed weight of gold and made...
Empty supermarket shelves in Caracas, Venezuela, during widespread shortages of food and medicine caused by price controls and hyperinflation. 2018. Things are rarely so...
Uncle Sam as Tantalus, frustrated in seeking Prosperity by posts representing high protective tariffs and political agitation, divided from his goal by an “ocean...
Federal Reserve Chair Powell participated in a discussion at the Economic Club of Washington last month. 2024. The Federal Reserve’s efforts to bring down...
Vice President and candidate Kamala Harris addresses the American Federation of Teachers’ labor union convention in July 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris recently announced...
Liz Truss, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, speaks at an American conference. 2024. “The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street” is the affectionate...
Oren Cass, now chief economist of American Compass, speaks in New Orleans. 2017. Nothing signals a greater likelihood of intellectual confusion than does intellectual...
A commissioner of the Bureau of Weights and Measures investigates food prices in a New York City store at the beginning of World War...
Aerial view of a developer’s newly built homes near Saint Johns, Florida. 2024. To a man with an antitrust hammer, everything looks like a...
A young woman clad in a traditional Tibetan outfit and holding a prayer wheel. 2023. Even a cursory knowledge about modern China reveals the...
A young man sits outside a small, discount barber shop in Natchez, Mississippi. 1935. Three decades ago, few economists would speak against free trade...