Editorial

The administration’s choice to be comptroller of the currency would take control of money by taking it out of private hands.

Let it be noted that one of the biggest items in the Build Back Better bill — its second-most-expensive provision — is its massive tax cut for the rich. BBB raises the cap on...

"Gas Prices Skyrocket" booms Newsweek. "As gas prices surge, President Biden asks the F.T.C. to investigate 'illegal conduct,'" says the headline in the Times. "Ghastly Gas Prices...

For the past two weeks in Glasgow, Scotland, world leaders have gathered at COP 26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, to listen to the same message: Disaster is just...

Sorry, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Tom Suozzi and others who got SALT income-tax deductions restored in the latest version of the Build Back Better spendapalooza: The bill’s other tax...

Has our descent into global warming lunacy become unstoppable?

That President Biden just interviewed the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, Lael Brainard, for promotion to chairman doesn't worry the current chairman, Jerome Powell. Nor does...

What the hell? In the mad scramble to re-re-rewrite the huge “Build Back Better” social-spending bill and rush it to a vote, Speaker Nancy Pelosi inserted a huge tax cut for the...

News that the White House is asking Senate Democrats to meet with Jerome Powell suggests that President Biden is considering nominating him for a second term as chairman of the...

Joe Biden had one job. He inherited a rapidly recovering economy and three approved vaccines for the novel coronavirus. All he had to do was sit back and watch his presidency succeed.

Oy: It turns out the child-care provisions of the latest version of President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” bill would utterly slam the middle class.

The thing to remember about the global minimum tax on corporations the leaders of the Group of 20 endorsed today is that if those politicians were leaders of corporations they'd be...

A poor GDP number is inextricably linked to the Democrats’ plans to tax and spend as never before.

It is bad on the merits, and there is no reason the GOP should help Democrats out of a jam.

We’re not sure there’s a bigger lie out there than the one that says renewable energy is the path to a cleaner environment.

The global warming scare is more than three decades old, yet the disaster that’s been forecast on a nearly daily basis since the late 1980s has yet to arrive.

It’s starting to look like the only thing Biden is “building back” is the misery of the 1970s.

One route to the truth would be a federal grand jury probe to determine if case and death counts have been inflated and are not reflective of reality

Now that Congress has kicked the debt ceiling down the road a few months, what of the idea of minting a $1 trillion coin made of platinum? Supposedly our leaders would smelt this...

One would think that with his approval ratings in free fall, including his ratings on the handling of the economy, that President Joe Biden would be looking for every opportunity to...

If President Biden nominates Jerome Powell for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, the question for which we'll be waiting is whether Mr. Powell tried to derail the...

The endorsement by Janet Yellen of the "End the Threat of Default Act" is what caught our attention in the Treasury Secretary's testimony yesterday before the House. One of the...

The big news of the day is the resignation of the presidents of two regional Federal Reserve Banks amid a contretemps over their trading for their own accounts. Eric Rosengren,...

A wealthy president who has apparently avoided his full tax liabilities wants to make sure the rich pay their fair share.

Messrs. Bezos, Musk, and Branson Dear Jeff, Elon, and Richard — Assume you fellows heard the potshot at the three of you this week by the Secretary General of the United Nations,...

Don’t bat an eye at Democrats’ modest plans to raise $170 billion over a decade by hiking the top marginal income tax rate from 37% to 39.6% for Americans earning more than...

The reason the economy is struggling is that Biden decided to abandon every pro-growth Trump policy

This is about claiming credit where credit isn’t due.

Every domestic policy intended to cut greenhouse gas emissions is a useless exercise.

Just three days after declaring his disastrous Afghan operation that abandoned Americans and allies an “extraordinary success,” President Joe Biden tried more gaslighting,...

There’s an outside shot that centrists in the House could block the measure, but Manchin and Sinema hanging tough is the best hope to avert this nightmare.

Antarctic sea ice is increasing, part of a trend that goes back more than 40 years.

House Democrats are now writing their version of the $3.5 trillion “human infrastructure” bill, detailing all the wish-list items they mean to ram through with zero Republican...

Politicians gave it to us good and hard.

The IPCC has a habit of doctoring its own work in an effort to frighten and manipulate the public.

Democrats on Capitol Hill are proving their socialist stripes: They’ve reportedly considered raiding the “super-sized retirement savings accounts” of the wealthy to pay for...

The New York Sun launches, with Judy Shelton's op-ed this evening, a series on the 50th anniversary of the collapse of the monetary system that had been established at Bretton Woods...

After Richard Nixon resigned, many pundits pronounced the Republican Party finished. Instead, by a careful recalibration and transformation under Ronald Reagan into the party of...

More than half of the world’s urban greenhouse gas emissions are generated in only 25 big cities – 23 are located in China and none in the U.S.

Not content with record inflation sparked by his added trillions in spending and stubborn unemployment rolls thanks to his extended benefits, President Joe Biden has delivered more...

The first piece of evidence against global warming claims should be the flawed computer simulations that have exaggerated the threat.

Paul Krugman is out with his latest column sneering at those who worry about inflation. His insouciance about the 1970s reminds us of Mark Twain's jibe about how Wagner's music isn't...

Bidenomics is proving an utter disaster for American workers and consumers, and don’t bet on it to end soon. With the pandemic all but over — more than half of American adults...

Conservatives in Congress need to speak up about the nasty trend of investment firms using our money to go all woke.

As pandemic-weary Americans seek a return to normalcy, emergency measures instituted to help slow the virus’ spread linger and obstruct the way.

Putting limits on labor isn’t just a perk. It's a way to safeguard workers' health.

Racial equality is an incredibly important cause, but we don't understand what it has to do with the Federal Reserve. We suspect the Fed doesn't have a clue, either.

Ridiculous: Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s COVID grandstanding in insisting he needs to do his own review before he can follow Biden administration guidance saying the fully vaccinated...

Economists expected the country to add 1 million jobs in April. It added just 266,000 — a sign that Bidenomics is kicking in and already becoming a dangerous drag on the economy....

Economist Judy Shelton has a crackerjack column in tomorrow's Wall Street Journal on the lack of intellectual and policy diversity at the Federal Reserve. She points out that during...

Not content with jacking up taxes massively and dangerously mushrooming the state budget, legislators are now looking to inflict yet more pain, by sneaking through a “universal...

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Various Democrats (and some Republicans) in Congress threaten to vote against President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package unless it repeals the SALT cap. It’s all the more...

Eight trillion dollars. That’s how much President Joe Biden has proposed in new spending — in just the 2½ months since taking office. It’s an absurd figure, equal to more than...

The corporate income tax has been gutted. Raising rates and cracking down on evasion are sensible ways to come up with trillions of dollars.

Apart from its conspicuous waste, the president’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure bill will saddle you with higher taxes for decades to come.

Our favorite story about Robert Mundell, the Nobel laureate in economics who at age 88 died Sunday at his villa in Italy, illuminates what a country would do for an hour of his time....

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Fool me three times, I must be John Kerry. President Joe Biden’s climate czar is banking on negotiations with Beijing...

Many homeowners are paying a total of billions of dollars extra because of inequities in assessing property values.

Raising taxes on the wealthy has a way of backfiring. Why? It leads to lower wages and fewer jobs for those who need them most.

Child poverty requires a permanent fix.

The entire nation's energy delivery system needs an overhaul.

Reddit might be “coming for silver,” Reuters reports this morning, but the wire reckons a short squeeze is “unlikely” — never mind Thursday’s...

President Biden's embrace of utter nonsense pushed by the "woke" continued with last week's executive orders to "to advance racial equity" and "root out systemic racism in housing...

The new administration's aid needs to last as long as the emergency.

The ban on evictions undoubtedly helped many struggling New Yorkers these last nine months. But the state's failure to account for landlords' needs risks disaster.

This is what Democratic leaders have already stated as their plans.

The economist and New York Times columnist says the economy may flourish under Biden. But only if he disavows his campaign policy promises.