NR PLUS Markets Why the Recent Decline in Diesel Prices Won’t Last By Dominic Pino August 6, 2022 Prices will likely be on their way back up relatively soon.
Monetary Policy Quick Note on the Jobs Report By Dominic Pino August 5, 2022 The Fed runs many risks right now; being too hard on the labor market does not appear to be one of them.
International Germany: A Stay of Execution for the Last of Its Nuclear Energy (Maybe) By Andrew Stuttaford August 5, 2022 Scholz’s problem is that superstitious dread over nuclear energy still permeates much of Germany’s politics.
NR PLUS World What Does Energy Security Actually Mean? By Thomas Hochman August 5, 2022 Economic and energy-security concerns — not climate change — drove countries such as China and India to ramp up their clean-energy investments.
NR PLUS Regulatory Policy SEC’s Argument for Climate-Disclosure Rules Doomed to Fail By Bernard S. Sharfman August 5, 2022 It makes no sense for the SEC to take this approach.
NR PLUS The Economy Conservative Economics Can’t Ignore the National Interest By Nate Hochman August 4, 2022 The American Economic Forum was not a betrayal of conservative principles, but an effort to apply those principles to the unique challenges of today.
Economics David Brooks Doesn’t Need to Apologize for Capitalism By Jack Butler August 4, 2022 Many of the defects Brooks associates with markets are instead products of government intervention.
NR PLUS Business Corporate America Isn’t Certain It Can Afford to Be Woke Anymore By Jim Geraghty August 4, 2022 Corporate America is starting to signal that woke or social-justice virtue-signaling is becoming an unaffordable luxury.
Capital Record Episode 78: A Stable Currency Is the Answer August 4, 2022 David is joined this week by John Tamny, an editor at RealClearMarkets.com and a highly regarded economic writer and speaker.
NR PLUS The Economy Are We in a Recession? By Patrick Horan August 4, 2022 Monetary and fiscal policy were too stimulative last year, and now policy-makers must deal with the repercussions.
NR PLUS The Economy Central Planning with Conservative Characteristics By Dominic Pino August 4, 2022 ISI’s American Economic Forum was at times hostile to economic liberty, but there may be limited appetite for a conservative version of government planning.
International China and the Sovereign-Debt Crisis By Dominic Pino August 3, 2022 Where the West has some experience dealing with developing-world defaults, China has none and is dealing with its own crisis at home.
Business Nervous Consumers and Large Inventories: Tough Times in Retail By Andrew Stuttaford August 3, 2022 The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Survey didn’t reveal much in the way of good cheer last week, falling for the third consecutive month.
NR PLUS Regulatory Policy The Problem with Government-Financed Child Care and Paid Leave By Jack Salmon August 3, 2022 Policy-makers should shy away from efforts to nationalize child-rearing.
Regulatory Policy The Only Good Part of the Manchin–Schumer Deal Isn’t Included in the Reconciliation Bill By Dominic Pino August 2, 2022 If Senator Rubio’s amendment for environmental-permitting reform passes, that would be a good development.