Economic Policy
Big picture coverage of macroeconomics, political economy, and governments' roles in world commerce.
- The Penalties of Our Tax Code Sita Nataraj Slavov 04/12/2013
- Our tax system’s unnecessary complexity creates unfairness and uncertainty. With a few reforms, it could be more growth-friendly, simple, and fair.
- Regulating Risk Arnold Kling 04/11/2013
- An illustration of the impact of financial regulation on capital allocation is the extent to which the world's savings have been attracted to long-term instruments with low yields.
- Confusing Cause and Effect in the Fiscal Policy Debate Steve Conover 04/10/2013
- Our debate should not be about income redistribution or debt reduction but rather about how to achieve broadly shared growth — because when we achieve that, history shows that the deficit and the middle class will benefit.
- Lessons from a Feminist Paradise on Equal Pay Day Christina Hoff Sommers 04/09/2013
- Sweden seems to be an egalitarian, feminist utopia. So why are American women ahead of their Swedish counterparts in breaking through the glass ceiling?
- Financial Innovation — Illusory and Real Alex J. Pollock 04/04/2013
- Some ‘innovations’ are merely new names for ways of lowering credit standards, running up leverage, and increasing risk. How do we know what’s real and what’s not?
- Grow the Economy through Small Businesses Nathan Allen and Sander Daniels 04/03/2013
- The majority of private sector job growth is from small businesses, and reforming licensing requirements is a promising route to increased business formation.
- The Next Real Estate Bubble: Farmland Blake Hurst 03/29/2013
- Farmers have been taking on mounting debt, creating an unsustainable increase in land prices and risking a crash that would ripple through our economy.
- Cyprus’s Imminent Collapse Desmond Lachman 03/27/2013
- Any calm bought by the IMF-EU bailout package for Cyprus will be short-lived. Cyprus is all but certain to experience an economic collapse over the next two years, and the country will again question whether it should remain in the euro.
- The Shrinking Health Gap Benjamin Ho and Sita Nataraj Slavov 03/26/2013
- When considering trends in equality, income is important, but health is arguably a prerequisite for all other measures of well-being.
- Two Budgets, One Point of Agreement, and a Third Way Steve Conover 03/22/2013
- The Senate and House budgets agree that this economy needs more growth and both predict the same growth levels — yet the Senate budget proposes higher spending, taxes, and debt than the House budget. Therein lies an opportunity for the GOP.