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Every era of easy money produces its speculative mascots. In the late 1990s, it was Beanie Babies — tiny stuffed animals that cost under...
When debating raising minimum wages, proponents will often point to Australia and Finland as examples that contradict the warnings from (typically American) economists. On...
The most common cancer in America is also one of the most preventable — if people simply had access to effective sunscreen. We spend...
In a recent analysis gone viral, financial blogger Michael W. Green traced how modern American families can earn anywhere from $40,000 to $100,000 and...
In most sectors of the American economy, we celebrate the moment when insiders break away to build something better. Engineers start their own firms....
The longest federal shutdown in US history has created deep gaps in the flow of economic data, preventing calculation of the Business Conditions Monthly...
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...
On Capitol Hill this week, five Democratic senators accused the Trump administration of “sweetheart deals with Big Tech” that have “driven up power bills...
Recent movements in short-term loan markets are a timely reminder of a forgotten truth: The Federal Reserve is not the master of credit conditions....
Central planners just can’t help themselves. They feel obligated to solve the world’s problems. Consider this year’s Orwellianly-named “Conference of the Parties” (COP-30), the...
Do you sell cupcakes, run a home photography studio, or tutor kids in your living room? If so, you might be breaking the law....