Alan Reynolds The Federal Reserve chairman and Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) always imagine that they can prevent recession by anticipating trouble in time to stop it. If that were true, soft landings would be the norm rather than a freak rarity. At his July 31 press

Andrew Gillen Note, this post updates last month’s post. The biggest changes from last month include: the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals halting the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan; added insights from Jason Delisle’s recent analysis of the legislative history regarding the SAVE plan; and the

Walter Olson Here’s another roundup of short-form items on election law and policy: For all the occasional creakiness of our decentralized way of holding elections under the Constitution, the reports from Venezuela make me again glad that we never developed a centralized, result-announcing national electoral commission. Past