Capitalism and Freedom

Chris Edwards, an economist at the Cato Institute, reports that Tim Horton's (Canada's "Starbucks") is moving its headquar...

World Economic Forum recently published its annual report on enabling trade around the world ( link ). The report estimated broader openness...

At Bloomberg, Kevin Hassett wrote an article ( link ), discussing the shortcomings of California's fiscal crisis. According to the offic...

"The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally pr...

Source: Congressional Budget Office ( link )

Conor Clarke has published a great interview with Paul A. Sameulson in two parts ( here and here ) discussing fiscal stimulus, Keynesian ma...

Source: CBO ( link )

This is what I chased in NYT ( link ):

Gary Becker ( link ) and Richard Posner ( link ) discuss whether the gravity of world economy is moving from the US and the EU to emerging A...

Daniel Griswold, trade economist at CATO Institute, describes ( link ) how American labor unions oppose the free-trade agreement between the...

"For centuries philosophers, mathematicians, political scientists and economists have searched for the best method of voting. Fifty-eig...

As seen by The Economist ( here and here ): "...a recent study by McKinsey, a consultancy. It looked into five sectors of the Russian ...

The Economist observes that a growing public debt and exploding fiscal deficit is the foremost macroeconomic enemy of the U.S economy ( link...

Today, Bloomberg reported ( link ) that April's trade deficit in the U.S increased by 2.2 percent. The recession in major trading partne...

Earlier this morning I was informed by Bloomberg ( link ) that Slovenia officially entered the recession for the first time in the last 16 y...

The WSJ reports that Russia's economy recorded nearly 10 percent output contraction in Q1:2009 ( link ). In spite of surging oil prices ...

The Economist has published an article about the economic slump and recovery in Eastern Europe ( link ).

The WSJ reports ( link ): "Consumer prices in the 30 members of the OECD rose 0.9% in the 12 months ended March 31, the lowest level si...

Here's a speech delivered by CEA chair Christina Romerat Joint Economic Committee about the current economic situation and the outlook (...

Earlier this morning, I came across the latest release of data on the distribution of federal taxes and household income, published by the C...