The value of China’s overseas investment and construction combined since 2005 has hit $2.6 trillion. Verifiable investment recovered from COVID and zero-COVID but has not gone back anywhere close to ...

The most important economic effect of artificial intelligence may not be that machines become more capable. It may be that people become more capable when they work alongside AI.

President Donald Trump has set forth an ambitious plan to reform the federal approach to immigration policy and enforcement. This plan can broadly be categorized into two overarching goals: (1) to ...

“Designed in California, assembled in China,” reads the text etched on the back of most iPhones. For over a decade, the iPhone has exemplified China’s central role in producing the world’s electronics ...

Washington is facing a multitude of global threats, so it is understandable that officials would second-guess the cost of helping Kyiv. But given the stakes, Americans must have clarity on the ...

Slightly more than 20 years, I wrote the article “Why Socialism Failed” and it appeared in 1995 in The Freeman, the flagship publication of the Foundation for Economic Education. I think it was the ...

Work has long been viewed as a critical pathway out of poverty. Therefore, it is important to understand the effects of federal safety-net programs—designed to alleviate poverty and promote economic ...

The China economy field is full of people repeating the government’s numbers and “analyzing” them. If that’s sufficient, China watchers can just project a gradual fall from 5 percent GDP growth ...

The United States is on the verge of two revolutions: Both are driven by artificial intelligence. AI is driving a revolution in business, where companies are learning the new AI economics that ...

What do the companies in these three groups have in common? Group A: American Motors, Brown Shoe, Studebaker, Collins Radio, Detroit Steel, Zenith Electronics and National Sugar Refining. Group B: ...

Housing markets are inherently local and national data can obfuscate important local trends. While some metros continue to benefit from tailwinds in the form of lower home prices, growing economies or ...

Sex scenes and female nudity have long been central to Hollywood’s business model. Some of us have argued that such a business model is corrupt, harming both men and women — both those making the ...