Economic Policy
Big picture coverage of macroeconomics, political economy, and governments' roles in world commerce.
- Money Printing Isn’t Always Inflationary Steve Conover 05/09/2013
- Republicans are wrongly giving fear of money printing a higher priority than the growth debate. Robust growth is as close as we can get to a panacea for our monetary and fiscal problems.
- Want Jobs? Try Advanced Manufacturing Thomas A. Hemphill and Mark J. Perry 05/08/2013
- By itself, the U.S. manufacturing sector would be the tenth-largest economy in the world, and there is growing concern among U.S. manufacturers about finding enough skilled workers to fuel its continued expansion.
- More Subsidies for Prosperous Farmers Barry Goodwin 05/01/2013
- In the face of deficits not seen since World War II, we should question proposals to provide billions of taxpayer dollars to support an industry that is enjoying record profits.
- Increasing Distortions and Feeding Leviathan: The Internet Sales Tax Benjamin Zycher 04/30/2013
- A policy shift that weakens the link between taxes imposed and benefits received by definition yields wealth transfers, and the vast array of perverse incentives attendant upon them.
- 10 Lessons from Cyprus Desmond Lachman 04/25/2013
- Here are the likely lessons future historians will draw from Cyprus’s sorry experience in the euro.
- The Federal Financial Triangle Alex J. Pollock 04/24/2013
- What would it mean for the world’s principal central bank to have negative net worth?
- Greed Is Green: How the Profit Motive Helps the Environment Pierre Desrochers 04/19/2013
- The search for increased profitability has long delivered both economic and environmental improvements by promoting the evermore efficient use of material resources.
- When Saving Is a Problem Not a Virtue Blake Hurst 04/18/2013
- The Obama administration’s proposed limits on ‘reasonable’ retirement savings would penalize success and patience in favor of the nebulous concept of fairness.
- Why Expanding Social Security Is a Bad Idea Andrew G. Biggs 04/16/2013
- A New America Foundation proposal would cost 3.7 percent of GDP and crowd out the private saving that drives our economy.
- A ‘Genius’ Way to Avoid Taxes Aparna Mathur 04/14/2013
- Nobel Prize laureates are avoiding heavy taxes on their prize money via a loophole that benefits charities. President Obama and former vice president Al Gore both gave away their prize money — at the expense of the IRS.