American economist and government official (born 1954)
Editors at National Review Online assess a current controversy involving an odious figure. The release of the Epstein files was supposed to uncover a vast conspiracy of elite pedophiles, or…
John Hinderaker of the Powerline blog assesses the latest fallout related to the late Jeffrey Epstein. Former Harvard President and leading Democratic Party intellectual Larry Summers has announced that he…
Phil Gramm and Larry Summers offer the president a bipartisan argument against new tariffs. In an extraordinary act of unity, 1,028 American professional economists in the spring of 1930 signed a…
Ari Blaff writes for National Review Online about Harvard’s latest questionable move. Harvard University plans to establish a task force to assist students whose names were publicized after singing public…
Unions take credit for the progress of the free market while promoting policies that harm workers and stifle mutual exchange. Though unions claim to champion the worker, they further exacerbate…
Editors at Issues and Insights document one major impact of today’s alarming inflation. When he signed the “American Rescue Plan” into law in March 2021, President Joe Biden bragged about…
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online places the Biden administration’s current woes into perspective. One wrinkle to the “Should the Democrats dump Biden in 2024?” talk that doesn’t get enough…
Editors at Issues and Insights ask a basic question about President Biden’s approach to his job. [A]sk yourself, what would Biden be doing differently if his goal was to purposely…
Editors at Issues and Insights highlight evidence that the president is wrong to blame America’s inflation problems on Vladimir Putin. As inflation has continued to climb, so have the number…
Editors at Issues and Insights take aim at the Federal Reserve. Along with President Joe Biden and Congress, the Federal Reserve has a responsibility to manage inflation, a job it…
Andrew Stuttaford of National Review Online highlights a prominent Democratic economists’ concerns about our current inflation picture. I am sure that Larry Summers would have preferred not to have seen…
Alex Nester of the Washington Free Beacon reports on a warning from a well-known Democratic economist. A top Democratic economist says the rise of “antiracist” math curricula is a national…