For many economists, economic growth is a mystery. By “economic growth,” Shawn Ritenour has principally in mind economic progress in the less developed countries, but his recipe...
The new problem we now face arises from the fact that huge deficits are only manageable so long as interest rates remain very, very low. Original Article: There’s No...
Jeffrey A. Singer New Zealand’s newly‐elected center‐right government announced yesterday that it intends to scrap a planned phase‐in of tobacco prohibition that would ban sales of tobacco products...
Paul Matzko The Wall Street Journal ran another article about the decline of the local newspaper in what has become its own, depressing sub‐genre. It hits all the usual...
November 28 marks the 1894 birth of one of American history’s most prolific public intellectuals—Henry Hazlitt. According to Llewellyn Rockwell, Hazlitt “was familiar with the work of...
Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published three new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: Trade Buys Goods, Services, and Time, by Gabriella Beaumont‐Smith, explains that trade not only...
Thomas A. Firey US antitrust officials have been busy of late. They’re awaiting a ruling in a major case against Google, in the midst of a suit against Amazon, looking...
Adam N. Michel OpenAI released Chat GPT‑3 a year ago this month. The subsequent diffusion of ever more sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) computer models drives near‐daily innovations (and...
Data on employed persons, wages, and other measures point to trouble ahead in an economy already strained by growing bankruptcies, mounting debts, and disappearing savings. Original Article: October’s...
Citing national security concerns, Arkansas ordered Chinese company Syngenta to sell off the 160 acres of farmland it owns in the state. The national security concerns are,...