Thomas Jefferson was an economic idiot. An import embargo he imposed as president cost the country something like 5 percent…

Long piece in the Review section of this weekend’s WSJ raising up and cataloguing some of the successes and triumphs of economists….

America has two democracies, one political and the other free market. The concept of a political democracy dates back to…

Left-wing political groups are staging street protests and running television ads to defeat President Trump’s proposed corporate tax cut. If…

Baldrick, of Blackadder fame, a member of Team Brexit? Who knew? For the uninitiated, Blackadder is a British comedy series,…

Back in April, President Trump slapped tariffs of around 20 percent on the Canadian softwood lumber industry. At the time,…

Google’s Ngram, which charts the use of written words over time, tells us something profound in its display of the…

Conservatives should prepare for China being the next big economic crisis. While they cannot stop it, they can prepare for…

A wealthy Manhattan woman died after her clothes caught fire while cooking last week. Her tragic death was unusual, but there was…

Amazon.com Inc. has announced that it will acquire Whole Foods Market Inc. for $13.7 billion, which represents a 27% premium…