ASIA: China is moving to spur spending that was depressed by COVID curbs in some of its biggest cities, but piecemeal measures such as vouchers, subsidies for car buyers and...

Reprinted from the Independent Institute A US News and World Reports article documents there are now nine confirmed cases of monkeypox in the US across seven states as of May 27th, 2022....

In 1957, the executive committee of the American Economic Association (AEA) faced a moral dilemma. In three years’ time, the organization’s annual conference was scheduled to take place at the...

A year ago, Pete Boettke, Dan Smith, and I published Money and the Rule of Law with Cambridge University Press. We tackle an important question: Why are central bankers so...

There are many factors at play when determining whether a prescribed burn moves forward or not.  A team of collaborators is in a state of constant assessment of temperature, humidity,...

In this new post, Pablo García-Palacios, from the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Spain, and Ji Chen from Aarhus University, Denmark, who both serve as Associate Editors for Functional Ecology, present...

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By Laveil M. AllenThe recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two adults deceased reopened wounds of the Sandy Hook, Buffalo, and Parkland shootings for many...

By Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Ben Iverson, David WesselThe U.S. responded to the COVID-19 recession with massive and unprecedented support for businesses. The business sector overall fared much better than had been...

By Michael Gelman, Melvin Stephens Jr., David WesselThe three rounds of Economic Impact Payments during COVID-19 were by far the largest direct stimulus payments made to American households. They were...