U.S. Economy

The number of jobs that require an occupational license now covers 30% of the US workforce, up from 5% in 1950.

In their war on "monopolies," Progressives like Elizabeth Warren show they don't understand the history of anti-monopoly legislation, and they also don't understand that modern day "monopolies" aren't really monopolies at all.

No economy is made better off by destroying existing resources. But that's what "cash for clunkers" tried to do, while only driving up the price of transportation for middle and lower-middle class families.

Bob Murphy on the current state of the U.S. economy.

It is challenging to see how governments can escape from their debt traps when interest rates rise above the levels currently forecasted.

The "Green New Deal" is aptly named, in the sense that the original New Deal was a massive boondoggle that restricted liberty and crippled the economy.

In his book A Generation of Sociopaths, Bruce Gibney blames Baby Boomers for pretty much everything that's gone wrong in America. But there are other factors, such as democracy, that are perhaps more to blame.

This trade deal is not only vague, conditional and temporary — it will fail to stop the global economic slowdown.