Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell and President Trump have engaged in a public imbroglio regarding reduction of the federal funds rate. The Fed, like the rest of the federal bureaucracy, is ...

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 ...

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

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

Philanthropy’s purpose should transcend filling gaps or funding innovation. As we face mounting global challenges and fraying ...

The underlying economic philosophy of the 1975 Treasurers speech approximated Friedman Phelps inflationary expectations theory already entrenched in the Australian Treasury. The Whitlam Government was ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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