Economic Policy
Big picture coverage of macroeconomics, political economy, and governments' roles in world commerce.
- Public 'Private' Equity: The Tax Puzzle Bill Thomas and Alex M. Brill 06/22/2007
- Tax hikes on private equity firms will hurt the ordinary investor most.
- The Real Tax Trick Donald L. Losman 06/19/2007
- Government spending, not tax revenue, is a better measure of public involvement in private markets.
- Stay Soft on 'Soft Dollars' John Tamny 06/14/2007
- One way or another, investment managers are always accountable to their clients.
- Profit for the Poorest Apoorva Shah 06/13/2007
- A U.S. initiative encourages businesses to see Africa’s poor as an untapped market.
- Life After Kelo Duncan Currie 06/08/2007
- Nearly two years later, how goes the fight for eminent domain reform?
- The Mixology of Foreign Labor Alex M. Brill 06/06/2007
- Congress’s current immigration debate is long on enforcement, but short on economics.
- Biofuels or Bio-fools? Laura Vanderkam 06/01/2007
- Vinod Khosla, a Silicon Valley legend, is leading the venture capital rush into replacements for gasoline: biofuels made from corn and rougher stuff like switchgrass. But if prices fall and political subsidies vanish, the bubble may burst.
- Banking on Zoellick Philip I. Levy 05/30/2007
- The World Bank needs strong leadership, not timidity.
- Foreign Investors Prefer Predictability to Democracy Aparna Mathur 05/29/2007
- A study of recent investment flows says that being a democracy may actually make it harder for a developing country to attract capital from abroad.
- A Bettor World Caren Chesler 05/25/2007
- Once apprenticed to a bookie, Justin Wolfers of Wharton now draws economic insight from the behavior of gamblers.