Liberty
New chair can help downsize bloated Fed staff
Ira Stoll writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a significant opportunity for the Federal Reserve’s new leader. A new chairman of the Federal Reserve is an opportunity to scale…
Bank of England
central bank of the United Kingdom
Liberty
Exposing flaws in ‘climate economics’
Roger Pielke writes about the faulty research behind climate alarmism. The scientific journal Nature in December retracted one of the most influential climate economics papers of the past decade. The…
Elections & Public Integrity
Election Reflections from a Visit to Hurricane-Ravaged Western North Carolina
We have all seen the scenes of utter devastation after Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina. Yet most county boards of elections were up and running within a few days,…
Liberty
Central Planners’ Bad Plan for ‘Net Zero’
Andrew Stuttaford of National Review Online explores a key problem with the government push toward “net zero” emissions. Central planning is, by definition, a rejection of free markets. And that…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Recent research ties large-scale economic woes to too much household debt
Amir Sufi and Atif Mian describe at Barron’s their research into links between household debt and economic busts. [T]he Great Recession showed us we can predict a slowdown in economic…
Energy
Sanders appearance on Sky News discussing G20 and the U.S. pulling out of the Paris accord
Transcript from Jon Sanders' July 8 discussion on Sky News with presenter Kimberley Leonard and fellow guest Keith Stewart of Greenpeace.
Regulation
Forbes foresees ‘reckoning’ for central banks
Steve Forbes‘ contribution to the latest issue of Forbes magazine focuses on the role central banks have played in hurting economic growth. THE BIGGEST, most immediate obstacle to a vigorous…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Barron’s editorial page editor tackles energy economics
Thomas Donlan of Barron’s explains that taxes and mandates targeting energy do nothing to make the laws of economics go away. Gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel are dense with energy…
Regulation
A central banker’s take on banking woes
Michael Lewis details for Bloomberg Businessweek readers the latest observations from former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King. King’s starting point is that the 2008 crisis wasn’t an anomaly but…
Liberty
Forbes reminds economists that the wrong diagnosis leads to the wrong cure
Steve Forbes explains in the latest issue of Forbes magazine why he believes central bankers have pursued the wrong path toward economic growth. THE KEY TO CURING a sick patient…
Liberty
Barone pays homage to the Hanoverian succession
Why should Americans care about the 300th anniversary of the succession of Britain’s Hanoverian monarchs? Michael Barone answers that question in his latest column. We do know that Georg Ludwig,…
Regulation
The Fed meets its real goal, even if it flubs its stated goals
There’s plenty of debate about the Federal Reserve’s “dual mandate”: maximizing employment and minimizing inflation. In a column for the latest Barron’s, Alex Pollock of the American Enterprise Institute explains…