There is a basic law in economics that the more you tax something, the less you get of it. That goes in particular for investment, personal effort and the preparedness of entrepreneurs to take risks ...

Exile Economics underestimates the attractiveness of a retreat from free trade. Companies can become reliant on protection ...

Just how important is money? Few would deny that it plays a key role in the economy.­ During the Great Depression of the 1930s, existing economic theory was unable either to explain the causes of the ...

When it comes to the scourge of “price-gouging,” Kamala Harris is on an island. Save the usual suspects such as Paul Krugman — who defended the vice president’s price-fixing scheme by insisting that ...

In a guest editorial on PennLive earlier this month, Vinnie Trometter shows a lack of basic economic understanding arguing against the federal repeal of an overreaching California law that hurts ...