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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is pushing a new home-entry rule, one Americans might have thought they left behind in the old world. A...
President John F. Kennedy once said, “We must find ways of returning far more of our dependent people to independence.” President Lyndon B. Johnson...
At the end of January, President Trump penned a triumphant op-ed declaring “Mission Accomplished” for the signature economic policy of his second term: tariffs....
“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” The line from Forrest Gump is meant to capture uncertainty...
The new year brought new developments in the world of financial services: specifically, the role of artificial intelligence (AI). In January, JPMorgan Chase announced...
In 1988, when Robert Lawson was a first-year economics graduate student at Florida State University, he was surprised one day to look up and...
Social Security is drifting toward a cliff, and Congress keeps pretending the shortfall will fix itself. It won’t. Absent reform, benefits will be cut...
The nomination of Kevin Warsh to replace Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Chair has many people wondering: What makes a good Fed chair? The...
A year or so ago, I met my friend’s mother for the first time at a wedding. She told me that she was Mississippi...
For most of us, especially those of us who think about it a lot, the Roman Empire conjures up famous names of such men...
One of the most robust findings in economics is that, with few exceptions, people respond to incentives, rather than intentions or moral principles. Individuals...
Substantive change has occurred in the subjects examined in my second book, Gold and Liberty (AIER, 1995), since it was published three decades ago....
The US Census Bureau just released state population data for mid-year 2025, along with updates for all previous years back to the 2020 Census....