U.S. Economy

Americans have more housing choices than ever before, thanks to the automobile and modern communications. The regulators are fit to be tied, says William Anderson. 

Frank Shostak rebuts the claim that markets are driven to unsustainable highs by waves of investor enthusiasm. Actually, the Fed itself is the real culprit.

Consider the relative tax bite affecting rich and poor: it is the people earning the highest income who pay the bills from government. 

The meltdown on Wall Street can't be corrected through intervention; if it is headed down further, it needs to run its course.

In 1958, John Kenneth Galbraith assailed American spending patterns. Consumers, he told us in The Affluent Society, spend too much on such fripperies as large tailfins on cars.

Rothbard's classic history of colonial and revolutionary America, back in print at last. 

If pundits really want to pay tribute to the central state, they should look beyond the New Deal and consider the watershed years of the Progressive Era. 

Another day, another politician blasts economics as a discipline and political issue. (Column by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)

The sordid history of failed economic predictions in our time. (Analysis by Clifford F. Thies.) 

How government subsidizes U.S. business abroad. (Op-ed by Janice Shields and James Sheehan)