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A Peek Inside the Deficit Veronique de Rugy 10/20/2009

Yes, the recession led to a shortfall in tax revenue, but the deficit is mostly a product of enormous amounts of government spending.

How Different Is Grandma’s Spending? Andrew G. Biggs 10/17/2009

The inflation seniors experience is far more similar to that felt by other Americans than it is different.

Protectionism vs. the Innovation Nation Vivek Wadhwa 10/16/2009

The era of measuring national well-being by tallying how many and what kind of advanced products a country makes is long gone.

Greed Is Not Good, and It’s Not Capitalism Jay W. Richards 10/15/2009

Capitalism doesn’t need greed. What capitalism does need is human creativity and initiative.

The Peril of Anointing a Favored Financial Few Vincent R. Reinhart 10/14/2009

The Obama administration’s financial reform package hits the trifecta of bad policy making.

Rhett Butler Comes to Washington James V. DeLong 10/13/2009

It would be wise for businesses to band together to defend free-market culture and make their money from our civilization’s rise.

Have We Misdiagnosed the Crisis? Scott Sumner 10/09/2009

What if the conventional wisdom is wrong? Some basic insights from modern macroeconomics suggest a very different interpretation of recent events.

Beauty, Art, and Darwin Roger Sandall 10/08/2009

It is possible that we have a kind of built-in moral resistance to the runaway pathologies now visible in the arts. Where did that resistance come from?

Why Milton Friedman Is Still Right Jerry Bowyer 10/08/2009

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

So How Is the Stimulus Working Out? Veronique de Rugy 10/07/2009

As stimulus spending has increased, so has unemployment.