When a Roman writer penned the adage “bread and circuses,” he warned emperors to make sure that peasants could afford to eat a panini and...

The U.S. look, not just ill, but broke. To offset the COVID-induced Great Cessation, the Federal Reserve and Congress have pumped in...

The coronavirus death rate is unknown, but the corporate death rate is clear. About 90 percent of the companies that made up the Fortune...

Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam argued in "Bowling Alone" (2000) that Americans were spending less time together. Today...

Labor Day once conjured up old-fashioned images of dad throwing burgers and hot dogs onto a charcoal-fired grill. It was the original...

Here is the scariest secret in economics today: the U.S. has benefitted from the global slump. The U.S. economy hums along, even while UK...

This Spring’s big betting questions are, Which team will win the NBA crown? What Broadway musical will capture the Tony Award? And why is...

Today’s Wall Street Journal features my oped on a 21st Century Federal Reserve Board.  The Fed map is so antiquated, it could’ve been...

Does President Trump model his trade and foreign policy based on game theory?  What game?  Read this intriguing piece by Grace Buchholz...

Before Neil Simon left us for some Broadway in the sky, he taught much about immigration and the American dream. Brighton Beach Memoirs...

Sure, make fun of airplane travel. Every comedian from Bob Hope to Chris Rock has a riff. But deregulating airlines has been one of the...

The U.S. has a defense problem. I am not talking about missiles, grenades, and F-16s. I am talking about defensive medicine. Because...

Here’s a wide-ranging interview from Power Engineering in which I discuss the “scissors economy,” Ben Stein’s lust for poultry, the...

My book Rush urges people to avoid early retirement. To be blunt, impolitic, and impolite, early retirement can make people more stupid...

Was the Airbus A380 doomed from the start? This week Airbus axed the jumbo jet. In 2007 my book New Ideas from Dead Ceos argued that the...

I have presented a new idea for President Trump and China.  Mr. Trump should urge China to cancel some of its U.S. debt.  A former U.S....