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There are plenty of people who will tell you that we are in a recession and several more who will tell you we are headed for some kind of ne...

Richard Rahn has an article posted at the Cato Institute about the corporate income tax: Rank the following taxes from best to worst: indivi...

Amity Shlaes has an article at Bloomberg that takes a different view of the housing problem: Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Everything will be all r...

I haven't done an update on the auction rate security mess for quite a while, but now that some firms are starting to settle with their ...

The Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac deathwatch continues today with the stocks both making new lows. It seems inevitable at this point that Hank ...

Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, lays out the non monetary mistakes made that turned the Cr...

Brian Wesbury's Op-ed in today's WSJ sounds familiar: The Fed's "dual mandate" -- to keep the economy strong and price...

Greg Mankiw quoting from a WSJ article cites a proposal by Alan Greenspan to aid in the recovery of the housing market: He did offer one sug...

I have a new article up at RealClearMarkets.com : In less than one month, oil prices have fallen nearly 22%. That drop happened during a per...

The WSJ has an editorial today entitled, "American the Uncompetitive", which details the excessiveness of our corporate income tax...