Economy The Debt Limit’s Lame-Duck Test: Can Republicans Cut Spending? by October 22, 2026 by October 22, 2026 Washington’s deficit addiction is imposing severe costs on the American people. As investors demand greater compensation for holding federal debt,… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy How the Federal Budget Gets Made by October 21, 2026 by October 21, 2026 Introduction Many people probably assume that Congress, like a household, sits down once a year, takes an accounting of how… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Starbucks Is Changing Course on Corporate Activism by October 21, 2026 by October 21, 2026 Shareholders of some of America’s biggest restaurant brands have been making a simple but loud argument during the past few… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Dishwashers, Dining Out, and Why We Spend the Way We Do by October 21, 2026 by October 21, 2026 Toward the end of the summer, I bought a new dishwasher after agonizing over a big-ticket purchase. My dishwasher had… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Trump’s $5,000 Offer Reveals How Washington Works by October 20, 2026 by October 20, 2026 In a speech in early September, Trump raised eyebrows with a pitch that seems outright shameless: And here is my… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy The Road to Serfdom Runs Through Both Parties by October 20, 2026 by October 20, 2026 Following his deportation from the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn warned, “There always is this fallacious belief: ‘It would not be… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy What Turned a Stock Market Crash into the Great Depression? by October 20, 2026 by October 20, 2026 To most Americans, October is “scary” because of Halloween. Economists recall another scary day: Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929. Over… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy AI and the Knowledge Problem in Higher Ed by October 19, 2026 by October 19, 2026 A familiar bit of bureaucratic reasoning, described as “politician’s logic” in the British comedy Yes, Prime Minister, goes something like… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy The S&P Is Soaring, But Two Thirds of Stocks Are Stalling. by October 19, 2026 by October 19, 2026 US equity investors have a lot to cheer of late, despite stubborn inflation, rising interest rates and financial tightening, and… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Expectations Matter. This Year’s Economics Nobel Explains Why. by October 16, 2026 by October 16, 2026 On Monday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics to Robert Hall (Stanford University… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
