The stronger-than-expected Services PMI reported on Monday injected optimism into the stock market. There was also some relief as news hit that the April 2 implementation of tariffs may be scaled back. On Tuesday, however, the market hit the brakes ...
Alex Nowrasteh and Krit Chanwong Ezra Klein recently interviewed David Shor, a data scientist at the Democratic consulting firm Blue Rose Research. Shor made two important immigrant-related points. First, the foreign-born share of the population in a county was highly ...
Public funding of University research and education is neither necessary on practical economic grounds nor defensible on moral grounds. It should be cut 100%. ...
Trump continually campaigned on the promise to cut spending, but the budget proposal he supports was much higher than that of President Obama. ...
This panel exposes flawed assumptions of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), including the origins of money, government spending, job guarantees, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. ...
The history of the rise of the state is a history replete with efforts by national states to replace private-sector money with state-controlled money. ...
Immigration is an economic issue among others, and the reality is that resources are finite. ...
Market participants will need more than rate cuts. We need to see real rates falling, inflation under control, and the deficit slashed. ...
Portugal’s Estado Novo regime under António de Oliveira Salazar was lauded by some classical liberals for allegedly saving the nation from socialism. However, as Paulo Ferreira writes, for all practical purposes it was a socialist government. ...
Patrick Newman offers a Jacksonian playbook for dismantling the deep state in our time. ...