Visiting Berlin in 1983, its Wall was a stunning sight. All that effort, all that threatened violence, just to keep people from choosing to improve their lives. We tut-tutted about how sad it was for ...

Every time the market falls, the pundits come out with the same diagnosis: It was a bubble, speculators lost their minds, and ...

We’ve been here before. As with so many other transformational inventions — railroads, electricity, the internet — outsize ...

Many charter members of our nation’s core of blow-dried and blathering commentators are blaming last week's blue tsunami in ...

Ho-fung Hung explains why renminbi-based trade with Russia and Iran could end up bolstering the greenback’s standing.

A business can shop around for a better shipping rate. It cannot do much about a federal law that makes the ship it needs off ...

Fathers are becoming better and nicer by the day. See the recent deaths of Susan St. James and Patrick Stewart for evidence.

If you love your iPhone, you passionately adore free trade. Absent the division of labor that the iPhone is a monument to, ...

Last week, Google parent Alphabet lost roughly $500 billion in market value in a single day—a sharp reminder that while ...

Too bad Kamala Harris didn’t beat Donald Trump in 2024. Except Republicans will protest that Harris would have been much ...

Voters sent congressional Democrats a clear message: the tariff status quo is unacceptable. The harder question is how to reform tariff laws.

John Kenneth Galbraith challenged the assumption that businesses merely satisfy independently determined consumer wants.