Trade wars. Financial panics. Inflation. How come it feels like it’s all bad news in the global economy these days? Economist Eswar Prasad’s answer: something he calls the ‘doom loop.’ That’s where ...

The United States no longer ranks among the world's free economies. For the first time in its 16-year history, the "Index of Economic Freedom" (published by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street ...

Many Americans are convinced the economy is ailing and that life is financially tougher today than a decade—or a generation—ago. Social media posts wax nostalgic for a long-lost era when all single ...

However, this nation-state framing of the origins of contemporary U.S. economic problems is seriously flawed. It also serves to direct attention away from the root cause of those problems: the ...

On April 30, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Citizenship, held a hearing to examine the question: "Comprehensive Immigration Reform in 2009: Can ...

December is usually a time for looking back on the past year and forward to the year ahead. In 2019, we have witnessed rising political extremism (on both the left and right) and polarization, ...

As he signed executive orders meant to turbocharge the country’s shift away from fossil fuels, President Biden instructed the federal government to explore how to find new ways to ramp up economic ...

Our elected officials and appointed economic officials still do not get it Real dollars are what drives our economy. There are only two forms of our economy that generate real dollars. They are: ...