Have tariffs created more jobs, or an economic boom? Not if you look at the data.

The 2020s, so far, have been one long and often painful lesson in what happens when policymakers tell economists to shut up and go away. From the COVID-19 pandemic through Bidenflation and onto the ...

The abandoned transaction between Novant Health (Novant) and Community Hospital System (CHS) for two North Carolina (NC) hospitals received substantial attention from the media, lawyers, and ...

Discover four key economic concepts: scarcity, supply and demand, costs and benefits, and incentives. Learn how they affect consumer choices and financial decisions.

One beauty of economics — the study of how human beings use scarce resources — is that its basic principles apply to life even if money is not involved. Opportunity cost, externalities, sunk costs, ...

Today we’re all getting smarter about some of the economic and political terms dominating the headlines these days. Terms like “authoritarianism” and “state capitalism” that have been hotly debated ...

Positive economics is a fact-based analysis of what is occurring in an economy, without making prescriptions of what should or should not be happening.

I'm not from Kentucky; I'm a New Yorker who has had a truly amazing visit to the Commonwealth. Like many visitors, I was struck by how welcoming Kentuckians are-and by how deeply bourbon culture is ...