In his first term as president, Barack Obama extended the reduction in the top rate of the income tax to 35 percent through 2012, two years past the 2010 expiration date that his predecessor, ...

In May, we lost after a long and full life of ninety years the economist Marina von Neumann Whitman. Among a host of accomplishments, von Neumann Whitman was the first to coin a name, in the mid-1970s ...

Northwestern’s conservative students’ group, Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), hosted economist Arthur Laffer Tuesday evening at Swift Hall to speak on his economic work and theories. Laffer ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Speaker 1: From the Opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free ...

Nearly a half-century ago, a new economic ideology achieved dominance over FDR’s New Deal. Reaganomics – the friendly moniker for a radical notion called supply-side economics – asserted that slashing ...

With the federal government now reopened after a six-week shutdown, we’re witnessing some remarkably positive economic developments. The annual inflation rate has dropped to 2.7 percent, while the ...

You know the GOP’s budget mess is getting desperate when a top economic aide says tax cuts increase revenue. There comes a time for every Republican when the irreconcilability of cutting taxes and ...

In a typical market, when demand surges, the logical response is to increase supply. That’s basic economics — especially in real estate. But in long-term care today, that dynamic isn’t holding.

Keynesian economics, as developed by economist John Maynard Keynes, comprise a theory of total spending in the economy and ...