Economic Policy
Big picture coverage of macroeconomics, political economy, and governments' roles in world commerce.
- Accelerated Learning Would Add Trillions of Dollars in Wealth Reuven Brenner 03/21/2013
- If students could complete their education a year faster, the many benefits would include increased personal wealth, decreased government spending, and more sustainable entitlement programs.
- Measuring Freedom around the World Alan W. Dowd 03/18/2013
- The new Human Freedom Index reminds us there is much work to do to restrain the leviathan and expand liberty in the twenty-first century — at home and abroad.
- The 'Two Drunks' Model of Financial Crises Arnold Kling 03/13/2013
- It’s unlikely that banks and government can be disentangled, but a healthier relationship could begin with a new approach to credit guarantees.
- The Budget Debate Simplified Steve Conover 03/12/2013
- In the debate over government spending, two main schools of thought dominate airtime, but an honest account should include two more — today’s moderates and yesterday’s statesmen.
- Not So Fast: Conflicting Deadlines for the TPP and US-EU FTA Claude Barfield 03/08/2013
- President Obama has suddenly embraced a highly problematic trade agenda for his second term.
- Why Not Soak the Rich? Lee Harris 03/06/2013
- Republicans don’t want to ask multimillionaires to pay a penny more in taxes. Isn’t that proof that the Republican Party is the party of the rich, as liberals have always argued?
- Myths of American ‘Cowboy Capitalism’ Thomas A. Hemphill and Mark J. Perry 03/04/2013
- A factual analysis reveals a modern-day America that is much closer to a European socialist-style economy than to a capitalist frontier.
- The Housing Bubble and the Limits of Human Knowledge Alex J. Pollock 03/01/2013
- How much can you trust the word of government officials? How much about the financial future can central bankers or anybody know? Consider the lessons of these 10 quotations.
- What Do Banks Do? Arnold Kling 02/26/2013
- A closer look at bank leverage.
- ‘Investment’ Means Defense Spending Steve Conover 02/25/2013
- Our politicians seem more focused on winning the next election or reducing the budget deficit than on preventing the next war. The result may be a disinvestment in defense that ends up costing more than it saved.