Do average folks get fair shot anymore?
We used to make sure all Americans could lead a pretty good life by Jon Margolis • Pittsburgh Post Gazette One day last winter, Tom Ashbrook and…
U.S. drops to 16th on ‘economic freedom’ list, behind Canada, Chile
By PAUL BEDARD • Washington Examiner The United States, ranked second in worldwide economic freedom as recently as 2000, has plummeted to 16th, according to a…
Obama’s New Energy Plan Could Cost $2.5 Trillion in Lost Economic Growth
by Nicolas Loris • Daily Signal The Obama administration unveiled its climate change regulations for new and existing power plants, calling the plan “the biggest, most…
The New Slow-Growth Normal and Where It Leads
On the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, an unhinged regulatory state is our doomsday machine. by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. • Wall Street Journal AT&T…
US Wage Growth Plummets to Slowest Pace On Record
by Morgan Chalfant • Washington Free Beacon U.S. employment costs posted the smallest increase on record in the second quarter of 2015. The Labor Department released…
Data points don’t support Obama’s claim that we’re ‘better off’
by the Oklahoman Editorial Board Barack Obama has always seen himself as an agent of change, a la Ronald Reagan. His goal was to do for progressive politics what Reagan…
Obama’s super slow, trickle-up economy
by New York Daily News Happy days are not yet here again for American workers, regardless of the cheering generated by the government’s latest report on job creation. The number…
Mob Rule Economics
by Thomas Sowell • Pittsburgh Tribune-Review While we talk about democracy and equal rights, we seem increasingly to let both private and government decisions be determined by mob…
How Repealing And Replacing Obamacare Would Help Restore Booming Economic Growth
by Peter Ferrara • Forbes One of the biggest drags on economic growth under President Obama has been Obamacare, enacted on a strictly partisan basis in 2010. That…
Regulators Wreck Innovation
Ride-share services benefit consumers, but the taxi commission doesn’t want to give us a good deal. by Glenn Harlan Reynolds The regulatory knives are out for Uber and Lyft, two…
Economy Looking Sick … Again
by Megan McArdle Last month, when the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that gross domestic product had grown at a lead-footed rate of 0.1 percent in the first quarter, economic…
Towards Energy Independence
“Despite what some argue, North American energy independence is not out of reach. The massive production gains expected in Canada combined with the output from Mexico and US domestic reserves…
Liberal policies make income inequality worse
Why do the loudest complaints about income inequality come from those whose policies worsen it? by George F. Will Someone who is determined to disbelieve something can manage to disregard…
The Downside of Inciting Envy
by Arthur C. Brooks The Irish singer Bono once described a difference between America and his native land. “In the United States,” he explained, “you look at the guy that lives…
Stoking class warfare to win midterm elections
Income Inequality talk is not about helping the poor, its about trying to cling to power. Sadly, the American dream is in trouble precisely because of policies designed to win…