In May, we lost after a long and full life of ninety years the economist Marina von Neumann Whitman. Among a host of accomplishments, von Neumann Whitman was the first to coin a name, in the mid-1970s ...

WASHINGTON - FEBRUARY 02: White House Office of Managment and Budget Director Peter Orszag testifies before the Senate Budget Committee about the Obama Administration's FY2011 budget on Capitol Hill ...

Nearly a half-century ago, a new economic ideology achieved dominance over FDR’s New Deal. Reaganomics – the friendly moniker for a radical notion called supply-side economics – asserted that slashing ...

Over the past decade, a lot has changed in the Republican Party and the American conservative movement. But Reagan-era supply-side economic thinking—lower taxes and fewer regulations unleash private ...

With the federal government now reopened after a six-week shutdown, we’re witnessing some remarkably positive economic developments. The annual inflation rate has dropped to 2.7 percent, while the ...

In a typical market, when demand surges, the logical response is to increase supply. That’s basic economics — especially in real estate. But in long-term care today, that dynamic isn’t holding.

After North Carolina conservatives won control of the General Assembly in 2010, they began a systematic application of supply-side principles to state policy. It’s been a phenomenal success — although ...

The Republican tax bill is noticeably less geared toward the supply-side orthodoxy that has dominated the GOP for a generation, betokening an ongoing shift in the party toward populism that could ...

You know the GOP’s budget mess is getting desperate when a top economic aide says tax cuts increase revenue. There comes a time for every Republican when the irreconcilability of cutting taxes and ...