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As America approaches its 250th birthday, I've been doing what a lot of folks are doing lately: looking back at the long road that got us here and thinking about where we're headed next. T ...

If there's one thing about which most Americans agree, it's that nobody can be sure what President Donald Trump will do next. One minute he's threatening Iran with apocalyptic destruction; hours ...

Global capital markets are undergoing a seismic, structural shift in 2026--one driven not by speculation, but by necessity. As traditional investment models strain under higher interest rat ...

There is a school of thought -- serious, not fringe -- that holds the national debt is a symptom, not the disease. The disease, in this view, is too much tax revenue, which enables both the ...

"Running on Empty," Jackson Browne's 1977 hit, was about a feeling everyone knows: running on fumes. That feeling describes today's economy. Fiscal relief, excess savings, an A ...

Filling up your car is a big deal. George Gilder has made the crucial point that all the inputs for cars and gasoline are as old as the earth, but that cars and fuel only reached mankind for a tiny fr ...

We're witnessing something rare in today's environment: bipartisan interest in regulating a sector of the U.S. economy. The U.S. Senate has already cleared a bill that would severely ...

My friend Michael Toth, director of research at the Civitas Institute, could perhaps be persuaded that he's incorrect about capital gains taxes. While he's correct that the long-term tax on capi ...

The drop in mortgage interest rates reported in March, the first time in four years that rates fell below 6.0 percent, was welcome news that was followed by an uptick in mortgage applications. &n ...

Every so often politicians recognize that laws empowering government bureaucrats to interfere with the free market produce unintended consequences. One example of this recognition is the 1961 Spo ...