News that the U.S. national debt has reached $40 trillion has produced the usual chest-thumping angst over what to do about it. Reduce spending. Cut Medicare and Social Security. Eliminate tax loophol ...

California needs to build single-family homes. The state has plenty of space but an aging infrastructure that won’t be made any better by adding more high-rises in urban centers.

Consumer confidence is in the tank, and yet the latest data shows consumer spending is as high as ever. Read Full Article » ...

For most of the past century, politics has helped tariffs endure in Washington despite a pile of research arguing against ...

The Nasdaq Composite Index’s rapid rally to record highs may scare off some new investors who would prefer to wait for a ...

The long-promised personal AI assistant is finally arriving, with a suddenly crowded field of agents offering to run pieces of your everyday life.

Despite how it might seem, a ban on diesel exports would likely worsen an already bad situation by driving diesel prices higher.

Hedge fund prophet Mark Spitznagel, the ultimate black swan investor, is feeling surprisingly bullish these days, expecting one last euphoric market surge—before an eventual 80 percent wipeout w ...

In the second week of September, 30-year municipal bond yields reached their highest level since February 2011. The 30-year ...

Attempting a distinction without a difference, socialists now claim one without historical antecedent. Historically, socialism and communism were indistinguishable names for those who desired th ...

The OECD, an organization of the developed countries of the world, has released a detailed report on corporate taxes in 146 countries around the world. The report shows that even with the corpor ...

The state of the world is terrifying.” That’s the excellent Bret Stephens from a recent conversation he had with the similarly excellent Frank Bruni at the New York Times. Stephens ...