Jeffrey A. Singer
Despite arguments from President Trump and his supporters, there is no such thing as an “optimal” tariff. If anything, Americans have the upper hand in trade because they can run large trade deficits due to the status of the US dollar as the world‘s reserve
While Trump has not yet turned to price controls to address America‘s absurdly high drug prices, Monday‘s executive order suggests that he soon may.
India has the longest history of affirmative action programs in the world and they have become the center of heated controversy between two clashing viewpoints.
Neal McCluskey A $5 billion scholarship tax credit is a part of the budget reconciliation bill just introduced in Congress. As a member of the Educational Freedom Supporters of America in good standing, few would doubt that I think school choice is an excellent thing. And
There are no “good wars,” rather, there are wars with varying degrees of destructiveness. The American War Between the States was especially destructive, and the scars have not fully healed 160 years after it ended.
Dominik Lett Medicaid, a joint state and federal medical care program, already costs more than national defense. And despite $1.1 trillion in improper payments over the past decade, Congress is sheepish about reforming it. Without major changes, Medicaid will accelerate the growth of the deficit, propelling
Chris Edwards On May 11, 60 Minutes examined the huge fraud problem in federal spending programs. The piece stressed the growing losses from large-scale looting of benefit and subsidy programs by criminal gangs based both here and abroad. The federal government is a vast transfer machine. It
A free market economy does not generate jobs or money. Instead, it creates wealth through exchange and production. Government intervention, contrary to what mainstream economists believe, does not enhance wealth, but instead destroys it.