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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...
I wrote a few weeks ago about how Trump’s manipulation of the Federal Reserve would have to go much further to achieve his goals....
This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics recognizes groundbreaking work on how innovation, entrepreneurship, and creative destruction fuel sustained economic growth. The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank...
Several incidents in the COVID pandemic’s first two years forced me to confront the uncomfortable reality that American society had cracked apart, fleeing the...
By every official measure, the economy seems to be doing well. Personal income, disposable income, and consumption expenditures all increased. GDP growth has been...
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced in September that New Mexico will become the first state in the nation to guarantee free childcare for its...
Almost two years ago, the enthusiasm of the 56 percent of Argentine voters who called for “Freedom” when electing Javier Milei as President of...
Donald and Melania Trump are eating breakfast together at Mar-a-Lago on the morning of January 21, 2029. At noon on the previous day, Gretchen...
Why do people vote, protest, or boycott, when their individual actions almost never change political outcomes? Economists have long emphasized that the probability that...
No president in American history had greater skill in the political uses of radio than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His warm voice was called “sincere...
Having read and written extensively (for example, here) about the suffering of the Chinese people under Mao, I was horrified and alarmed to listen...