Purchasers of Black-Market Human Organs Often Complicit in Murder Audio By Carbonatix When it comes to the scourge of “price-gouging,” Kamala Harris is on an island. Save the usual suspects such as ...

The former head of the Federal Reserve thinks President Donald Trump doesn’t understand basic economics, the central banking system or international trade. But she said it in such a way that you might ...

“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws — or crafts its advanced treatises — if I can write its economics textbooks.” — Paul A. Samuelson What is the socially optimal amount of pollution in the ...

Kamala Harris claims she has a plan to solve the crisis she helped cause: inflation. Under former President Trump, the inflation rate averaged 1.9%. It skyrocketed to 9.1% in 18 months under Joe Biden ...

Given the conversation it has provoked, the fuss from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over President Trump’s economic adviser Kevin Hassett’s use of the phrase “human capital stock” might have to be ...

Chris House has a somewhat odd post in which he argues that unlike in most other academic disciplines, in economics the facts have a conservative bias: I suspect that the relatively high proportion of ...

The simplest way to understand economics is that it is a reckoning with unavoidable tradeoffs. If you spend money on something, you may obtain something in return—but you lose the ability to use those ...

When New York's Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that the world would end in 12 years due to climate change, she fell short of noting the U.S. national debt as another contributing factor. The ...

Paul Solman: On Tuesday, we posted the first transcript from a series of interviews I’ve done with Paul Samuelson over the years. This installment picks up where the last left off, explaining the most ...

"Basic Economics" is a 653-page book, not including the index. One doesn't have to start reading it at the beginning. Near the book's end, there's a section titled "Questions," and it points the ...