Economy

Protesters in Brussels participate in the Walk for Your Future climate march ahead of COP27. United Nations climate conferences typically reach their peak just as they close, when they unveil…

Total housing starts fell to a 1.427 million annual rate in November from a 1.434 million pace in October, a 0.5 percent drop. From a year ago, total starts are…

Entrepreneurs are transforming the way society makes and distributes valuable things. There will be (and already are) important consequences for the way we work and live. The good news is…

Most weeks, the nonfiction bestseller lists have one or more self-improvement books promising specific techniques you can use to be healthier, more productive, happier.  Since almost any technique will work…

America feels lost. How can we find our common ground again?  In this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand sat down with Samuel Gregg, Distinguished Fellow in Political Economy and…

John Goodell studied literature at Berkeley, then got an M.F.A. at Columbia. He has edited Zyzzyva, a literary magazine in San Francisco, and been a contributing editor at Rolling Stone.…

Dynamic pricing is receiving a lot of attention, given the media storm surrounding the recent sale of Taylor Swift’s concert tickets. Problems with pre-sale pricing and ticket availability for Swift’s…

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are…

People point to tax burdens and over-regulation as the reasons for economic decline. But the reality is that high government spending is the precursor to heavy taxes and regulation.  Look…

Thankfully, inflation is slowing down. Prices rose only 0.1 percent in November, yielding the lowest annualized inflation rate (7.1 percent) in a year. Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and…