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The Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) of 1998 imposed massive financial penalties on cigarette companies and sharply restricted their marketing and advertising. It was the culmination of years of work ...

Exxon Mobil traces its roots in New Jersey all the way back to 1882, when John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil of New Jersey. Next month, after 144 years in the state, Exxon Mobil shareholde ...

In 1934, a best-selling book called Merchants of Death made a simple and outrageous argument: that arms manufacturers had conspired to drag the United States into World War I because war was ...

Federal Policies Confidence Plunges 11.8% as Overall Index Drops 9.9% Consumer sentiment fell sharply in April as the RealClearMarkets/TIPP Economic Optimism Index, the first monthly reading of U ...

The Trump Administration's efforts of late to make life more affordable in the United States--a common complaint of voters these days--have primarily focused on housing costs and consu ...

The United States is teetering on the cusp of a retirement crisis - and has been for some time. Following years of tax-and-spend policies that spurred runaway inflation and drove up costs of liv ...

War symbolizes economic decline like nothing else precisely because it's defined by the extermination of the very people who create all the growth. The sad fact that economists near unanimously ...

They're back! Special interest groups across the political spectrum are pushing Congress to reintroduce the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), which would get the feder ...

For decades, the case for restoring gold to its monetary role has been made with great intellectual seriousness and small political effect. Lewis Lehrman made it. Steve Forbes made it. Ron Paul built ...

If something is legal, but no one does it because they are afraid of regulators and being sued into oblivion, is it actually legal? The answer is yes, and today in a new proposed rule the Department o ...