When Britain voted to leave the European Union (EU) on June 23, 2016, there were dire predictions for its economy. Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne cited a Treasury analysis ...

Money matters, but the data show that other things matter more. Minority interests routinely organize and win, even with ...

Markets bring together people who otherwise have little reason to cooperate. The voluntary economic relationships critics ...

Housing is less affordable, governments are drowning in debt, and workers feel stuck. Has technological progress stopped ...

While many watch the battle for Congress, state-level ballots are where some of America's biggest economic experiments unfold ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s recent attack on online anonymity exposed a widening disagreement between Europe and the United States over what freedom in the West should mean. Earlier this month, ...

The entrepreneur behind the peanut butter cup once worked at Hershey's. In his own basement, he discovered the power of ...

With another election season behind us, we should revisit some of the great economic and political debates about the merits of voting and electoral politics. While majorities successfully elected ...

On August 15, 1971, Richard Nixon interrupted Sunday-night television to announce the New Economic Policy. With the Vietnam War winding down, Nixon argued, the economy required federal action to ...

Critics are divided as Javier Milei takes gradual, constrained steps toward the radical free market he campaigned on.

Note: As of the January 2026 Business Conditions Monthly (BCM) calculation, sufficient data have become available to resume publication of the three BCM diffusion indices. However, because the most ...