Category: Economy

Senator John Hoeven (R-ND) is a first-term Senator from North Dakota. Formerly governor of North Dakota for ten years, he is one of the Senate’s most avid supporters of a reformed, “all of the above” energy strategy for America. He sat down with me this morning to discuss a variety of aspects of energy policy […]

By Jeffrey A. Miron, senior lecturer at Harvard and Senior Fellow at Cato. I disagree with his recommendation on military spending but the other recommendations are: fine. Eight out of nine is pretty good.

On Wednesday morning, The Heritage Foundation released a paper by Center for Data Analysis Senior Fellow James Sherk on the cost of the 2009 auto bailout. The Treasury Department estimates that the auto bailout will end up costing taxpayers $23 billion and, according to Sherk, all of those losses are the result of the Obama […]

Stanford economist John Taylor: Here are two charts which show why both increased regulation and policy uncertainty are very significant.

Low: South Dakota, $1.2 million. High: California–where else?–$125 million.

In talking about the Euro, George Soros had this to say. The European Union is “like a bubble” — not a financial bubble but a political bubble — that could pop as a result of the euro -zone crisis, Soros said. “In the boom phase, the EU was what the psychoanalyst David Tuckett calls a […]

If you want to understand what went wrong with GM and Chrysler and what’s still wrong with both of those companies, and to a lesser extent, Ford, it’s not hard to understand. 1) The unions give lots of money and manpower to the Democratic Party. In return, the Democratic Party has given unions way too […]

We could learn something from them. The Swiss “debt brake”–at first glance–seems like a good idea.

Eduardo Saverin just became an extraordinarily wealthy man and the fact that he’s renouncing his American citizenship is adding an enormous amount to his bottom line. Alone among Facebook’s 900 million users, Mr. Saverin is special: a billionaire with only the vaguest of causes. He co-founded Facebook at age 21, then left two years later […]