The economist Charles Goodhart observed that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Policymakers ...

Arthur Laffer saw that ‘people don’t work to pay taxes, they work to consume,’ and made economic history.

The Treasury Secretary looks at New York and sees a replay of the 1970s. He looks to Trump's ally in Argentina, and sees ...

Social Security has long been a subject of intense discussion in America, but investing legend Warren Buffett’s position on ...

Obsessed with keeping inflation down, the Argentine president kept the peso’s value artificially strong, which hurt economic ...

A similar call is appropriate as business leaders respond to the demands of today’s autocrats. When these leaders capitulate, ...

Of all the attacks on valuable things that Donald Trump is mounting — on free speech, financial reporting standards, climate regulation, relations with allies — one of the most dangerous is his ...

Solangel, a Venezuelan immigrant, is the mother of a 7-year-old who blossomed at the Head Start preschool program he attended ...

These poverty constraints were lifted with the passage of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, a 2010 law designed to reduce childhood obesity while expanding food access to non-poor students by ...

“Prediction is hard, especially about the future,” the saying goes.

Ian Farrell, editor of Circular magazine, unpacks the quiet recycling revolution underway across the United Kingdom.

Chart #1 shows the level of the M2 money supply, which grew at a fairly steady rate of about 6% per year from 1995 to just ...