Artificial intelligence promises economic transformation, yet its impact remains curiously absent from productivity statistics. Or maybe not so curious. This paradox, economists suggest, is entirely ...

President Trump’s designated chair of his Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), Stephen Miran, published a lengthy paper that lays out the intellectual justification for Trump’s aggressive interest in ...

I was speaking to a non-US non-climate beat reporter yesterday about undeniable issues of scientific integrity in climate science and he asked a question about the climate science community that got ...

In part one of this two-part series I explained some of the shared background of the estimates of the fiscal impact of immigration recently produced by Daniel Di Martino and David Bier. Here I will ...

A school choice revolution is rapidly reshaping how public education is organized, funded, and delivered in America.

Congress is remembered at all, it will likely be for its ineffectiveness and dysfunction, which persisted until the merciful end. In its last days, as it rushed for the exits, it put off, once again, ...

President Trump has heightened economic uncertainty during his first few weeks in office. Be it by his tariff policy, Elon Musk’s spending cut antics, his deportation plans, or his geopolitical ...

Two principles seem especially relevant these days: trade-offs and constraints. By the former, I mean the unavoidable reality that policy choices entail sacrifices, nd by the latter, I mean the ...

Speaking yesterday on Fox News, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick indicated that official data for U.S. GDP would now separate out government spending from the rest of the nation’s overall ...