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Last year's bankruptcy of American auto parts maker First Brands Group (FBG) was a major news story in Cleveland, where the company was headquartered and where its loss dealt a heavy economic bl ...

Washington doesn't hand out many easy wins. So when one shows up with 100-plus co-sponsors and genuine bipartisan support, it's a moment for members to act. The GROWTH Act, short for Gener ...

The case for market-based capitalism is not that it is perfect. It is that nothing else comes close. When China loosened its grip in the late twentieth century and let markets operate more freely, rou ...

Last week, the Federal Reserve ran a facility that lent foreign central banks exactly nothing -- and has done so for eight weeks running. So it was a strange moment for the Treasury Secretary to go on ...

The DOJ was investigating Google and Chrome for monopolistic practices right as Open AI released ChatGPT in 2022. Get it? It's worth thinking about as Holman Jenkins asks, "When is Beijing ...

America will win the race to superintelligence unless we defeat ourselves. Unfortunately, there is a scenario where that happens -- and as a policy matter, it's already under consideration.

Elon Musk has made one of the boldest economic predictions of the artificial-intelligence age: by 2036, money may no longer matter. The reasoning is clean. Money exists because things are scarce. If A ...

On July 22, the European Union fined Google 890 million euro (over 1 billion dollars!) for violating the Digital Markets Act ("DMA"). This law was passed by the European Union in May of 20 ...

I. Introduction For decades, politicians of both parties have treated America's trade deficit as a national scoreboard--as though a smaller deficit automatically means a stronger economy. It does ...

When I chaired the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, I spent a lot of time listening to farmers. The concern I heard most often was the rising cost of the things they had to buy just ...