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Dr. James Sears is a new assistant professor in AFRE researching consumer and producer responses to unexpected shocks.

WASHINGTON—New economic numbers show that the average American has lost the equivalent of $4,200 in annual income under the Biden administration because of inflation and higher interest rates.  

I have just read a staggering report written by my colleagues Patrick D. Tyrell and William W. Beach for the Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis (I direct the Margaret Thatcher Centre for Freedom at Heritage.)

Rather than bolster funding for programs that have failed toincrease student achievement, House and Senate conferees on thereauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Actshould target funding to results-oriented approaches.

The Index of Dependence on Government measures the growth in spending on dependence-creating programs that supplant the role of civil society. Dependence on government in the U.S. rose again in 2011, the year of the most recently available data, and which is principally assessed by this report. A solid majority of Americans polled by Rasmussen believe that government dependence is too high. In a September 2013 poll, 67 percent of adults nationwide said that too many Americans are dependent on th...

The Biden administration's touting of Gross Domestic Income growth was challenged by newly revised figures that one expert says is more proof the country is in a recession.

The "October effect" has historically garnered fears that fall's first full month will be bad for markets, having historically seen some of the country's largest crashes.

In a campaign speech last week, the absent-minded president declared, "Gas prices -- I know I got criticized for going into the stockpile. But guess what? Gas prices are down $1.30 a gallon.

A common sound bite today is that the Federal Reserves recent interest rate hike is pushing the nation toward recession. But thats like beginning a book on page 813. The origin of todays economic malaise is prolonged and massive federal budget deficits, combined with a Fed willing to finance those deficits.

On June 26, a 1,427-page climate change bill introduced by Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA) passed the House by a narrow margin. The bill, also known as Waxman-Markey, includes a number of alarming provisions, chief among them a cap-and-trade program that would attempt to curb global warming by imposing strict upper limits on the emission of six greenhouse gases, with the primary emphasis on carbon dioxide (CO2).