Michael Strain explains in a Bloomberg column why Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to tax wealth falls flat. The tax would apply to fortunes above $50 million, hitting them…
Richard Moody’s brief observation in Barron’s “Market View” offers an important lesson about the value of savings and investment. For some time we’ve argued that the main culprit behind notably…
As we go into the 2018 election season, there is a great deal of talk among Republicans, both in the White House and in Congress, to pursue what is being…
Thomas Donlan had Thanksgiving in mind when crafting his latest Barron’s editorial commentary. America is not merely the wealthiest country on earth; it is the wealthiest because it is the…
Though the term “crowdfunding” is relatively new, a similar phenomenon led by the private sector helped spur massive growth in the North Carolina economy more than a century ago. That…
Thomas Donlan of Barron’s explains why a race to the bottom makes sense when the topic is corporate income tax rates. With redoubled determination, the U.S. Treasury Department has stepped…
George Leef’s latest Forbes column probes the long-term negative impact of government attacks on property rights. Why are some American cities thriving, growing in population, investment, and incomes, while others…
View in your browser. Over the past several weeks, I have been discussing some of the silliness surrounding the analysis of lower oil and gasoline prices. It was pointed out…
If you listen to “progressives” like Obama, government is the essential catalyst in economic growth — more spending to “stimulate” the economy is crucial. But in the letter in today’s…
Dan Mitchell writes at his International Liberty blog about the connection between capital and workers’ pay. Mitchell assesses the graphic below, which charts the relationship between investment and labor compensation.…
In this column, Don Boudreaux looks at Thomas Piketty’s much-discussed book and finds it badly flawed. In particular, he calls into question the central assumption behind the book, namely that…
The crux of Piketty’s argument is that the rich will just keep getting richer and richer than regular folks, but as AEI’s Andrew Biggs points out here, that assumes that…