House prices, churning markets and global imbalances may be today's burning issues, but don't bet on any of these figuring in the next Nobel economics prize...
Hong Kong has a pegged currency, the only state-owned Disneyland, a leader who's selected by China, a handful of oligarchs towering over it -- and it's the world's freest economy...
Some of Britain's best-known historians are joining the chairman of English Heritage in imploring the government to reverse a decade of cuts in heritage funding which they claim have lost the sector more than £100m...
Since the release of The Age of Turbulence, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan has been variously praised and criticized for the views he has expressed on taxes, interest rates, and the presidents he served...
American supermodel Christie Brinkley spoke out for a nuclear weapons-free world, saying the U.S. government's contention that Iraq had nuclear weapons "blinded much of the American public..."
For a long time and until 2003, the Iraqi writer Kanan Makiya was a critical filter through which supporters of war in Iraq channeled their most potent arguments in favor of an invasion...
If Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) really thinks trade causes poverty, he should encourage the Vermont legislature to erect high tariff barriers against goods from the other 49 states ("Free Trade Treaties Mean Impoverishment," Letters to the Editor, Oct. 4)...
The Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee today announced additional members of Mayor Giuliani’s foreign policy team, including Dr. Ruth Wedgwood, an internationally-renowned legal and United Nations expert, as a member of the International Law and Organizations Advisory Board, and Adm. Robert Natter, Ret., as Senior Military Advisor...
The Bush administration's recent wrangling with Russia over the U.S. plan to put missile defense components in Poland and the Czech Republic is the last thing we should be doing if we want to reduce the danger of nuclear confrontation...
Henry Smith’s Intellectual Property as Property: Delineating Entitlements in Information contributes to the intellectual property literature by arguing that enforcing IP with rights to exclude can mitigate the high information costs associated with information-based assets...