In a new memo dated June 18, 2025, Marks contends that when officials override basic economic principles, they are “choosing winners and losers, rather than letting market forces do so”. This ...

President Donald Trump’s embrace of government ownership of private companies shows that the Reaganomics doctrine that defined Republican economic orthodoxy for decades may be all but dead. As the ...

“Nothing is so permanent”, noted Milton Friedman, “as a temporary government programme”. Friedman died in 2006, a couple of years before Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two enormous government-sponsored ...

For over 100 years, the Republican Party has stood for free-market capitalism and keeping the government's heavy hand out of the economy. Government intervention in the economy, well, that's what ...

In the capitalist American economy, markets pick winners, and the federal government typically stays out of the way of business. But during times of crisis or war, the government has occasionally felt ...

Donald Trump’s directive that the federal government acquire a substantial stake in microchip-maker Intel has shaken some on the right, worried that the president is ditching long-sacrosanct ...

President Donald Trump has taken it upon himself to obtain partial U.S. government ownership of major companies, entangling government with private enterprise in a way that would disgust Republicans ...

Nigel Driffield receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. He is an inactive member of the Labour Party and an advisor to the mayor of the West Midlands Those of us who study ...

“It seems clear that the Trump Administration is advocating a new path forward and a return to the possibility of an injunction issuing to patent owners—even a preliminary injunction.” Earlier today ...

Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill say Washington is headed for a government shutdown next week unless President Trump intervenes to cut a deal with Democrats. Senate Majority Leader ...