ASIA: An iPhone manufacturing plant in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is being forced into a seven-day “closed-loop” lockdown by Chinese authorities, along with 100 other companies, to limit...

Sanctions strengthened Putin and caused “unfriendly nations” to form a closer alliance against the West. As the West suffers from an energy crisis with no solution in sight, Russia is...

Economic fluctuations can result from swings on the demand side (total nominal expenditures) or the supply side (general productive conditions). Countercyclical policy can stabilize the former but not the latter....

Reprinted from the Future of Freedom Foundation Leonard E. Read, the founding and long-serving first president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), once told a story about when he...

With Thursday’s abysmal 2nd quarter GDP number, the US is officially in a recession. The path to a soft landing for the US economy has virtually closed. The US economy...

Reprinted from Inside Sources With how news moves these days, it is easy to miss the drama unfolding in the tobacco world. Over the course of this year, the Food...

In this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand interviews Robert Wright, Senior Research Faculty at the American Institute for Economic Research. His new book, Fearless: Wilma Soss and America’s Forgotten...

With talks of recession everywhere, and the midterm elections looming, there has been a lot of talk from the White House attempting to downplay souring economic conditions. This has occurred...

Reprinted from the Independent Institute Experience is the best teacher.  So, while my first introduction to the idea of entry barriers was undoubtedly as an undergraduate student, my first encounter...

New orders for durable goods increased 1.9 percent in June, following an 0.8 percent gain in May, the 8th increase in the last nine months. Total durable-goods orders are up...