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Gov. Kathy Hochul pitched her proposed pied-a-terre tax as a silver bullet for New York City’s budget woes — but instead, it appears to... Read More

Everyone agrees that there’s a housing crisis in America. Congress wants to help — but keeps getting in its own way. Read More

Bad economic policy is demoralizing the young. Read More

Evidence we're not rah-rah Republicans.  Read More

The federal government just released its Special 301 report, which calls out foreign countries that deprive American companies of billions in... Read More

I’ve recently been spending time with a trio of seething, striving, sadistic men. Luckily for me, they’re all made up.... Read More

Chances are, if you’re involved with or even mildly interested in politics, you’ve seen The West Wing; and, if you haven’t, you should... Read More

Last week, Google (GOOGL) briefly overtook Nvidia (NVDA) as the world’s most valuable company. Read More

Bond investors are betting on inflation and interest rates staying high for a long time. Stock investors are betting that won’t be a... Read More

Proponents say the Trump accounts will be better than Social Security. Don't believe them. Read More

Ben Bernanke’s Fed pulled off a miracle during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. What might Kevin Warsh be forced to pull out of his... Read More

The Fed made its first mistake in 2021. It misread a supply shock as a transitory blip, fell behind, and spent two years engineering the... Read More

What fractures globalized production naturally results in higher prices just as what integrates global production naturally results in lower... Read More

Congress is finally moving toward cryptocurrency regulation. The problem is that policymakers still largely treat crypto as one homogeneous... Read More

They don’t like the super-rich tech oligarchs, they don’t trust Big Tech and they are ready and willing to fight to stop AI data centers Read More

The European Union (EU) cannot keep itself from overregulating the digital world. Last month, the European Commission (EC) published a... Read More

Amazon has been investing in the U.S. for decades because we believe in American innovation, American workers, and American communities. Read More

I spoke with former CIA colleague Tom Lyons about how China's systematic espionage threatens U.S. companies and what reforms could harden... Read More

In Petersen Energia Inversora SAU v. YPF, the Second Circuit allowed Latin American socialists to swindle Wall Street investors. Read More

President Trump’s trip to China brings the economic implications of America’s war against Iran into sharper focus. The fact that... Read More

Rural households are paying, on average, at least $26 per week more at the pump, and an oil-dependent food supply chain means we should... Read More

Often the best hope for central bankers is to minimize mistakes and stay humble. Read More

Why studying market history is so important. Read More

Big IPOs are not a buying opportunity. Read More

Markets require general rules to function properly, not personalized bargains—Trump’s financial disclosures are a reminder of why. Read More

Another example of the flawed logic behind the Trump administration's tariff policies: You can't make a tire without rubber, and the U.S.... Read More

How motivated reasoning frames economic debates Read More

Even the abundance wing of the left wants "a much stronger government," in movement champion Ezra Klein's words. Read More

For lots of reasons rates will stay higher for longer. Read More

Stocks are cheaper, their prices are higher. Read More

There is a big difference between betting on something and investing in meritorious companies with long holding periods. Read More

Why lumping factor funds with stock-pickers distorts the scorecard and misleads investors Read More

The inflation data doesn’t look good, no matter how you slice it. Read More