That is, President Trump’s newly launched trade war against the world is expected to be more than twice as expensive as the ...

Washington is not immune from the ravages of inflation, either. Soaring annual deficits and a $36 trillion national debt mean the federal government has to shell out record sums in interest payments ...

As Hoover Institution economist John Cochrane has pointed out, when the Fed raises interest rates to combat inflation, it also raises these interest costs on the debt. This creates a fiscal ...

But many people say price controls are not the answer. John H. Cochrane, an economist and fellow at the Hoover Institution, a research center, pointed to the role Diocletian’s edict played in ...

Until a week or two ago, President Donald Trump’s conflicting statements left open a strong possibility that the leader of the free world was threatening sweeping tariffs as a cudgel to extract better ...

Prof. John A. List has been appointed director of the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, ...

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