Basic Economics is a 653-page book, not including the index. One doesn’t have to start reading it at the beginning. Near the book’s end, there’s a section titled “Questions,” and it points the reader ...

"Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy" by Thomas Sowell is one of those important works that should be required reading for anyone who is alive. Barring that it should, at minimum, be ...

The United States is fighting wars on multiple fronts. Aside from our involvement in Ukraine and the Middle East, a hot war is being waged against economics. This war is being championed by the ...

The simplest way to understand economics is that it is a reckoning with unavoidable tradeoffs. If you spend money on something, you may obtain something in return—but you lose the ability to use those ...

Congress is failing basic economics. The largest business in the United States is taking in $6 trillion dollars in revenue and is projected to spend $8 trillion. The CEO of this company should be ...

A sign of intelligence is learning from one’s mistakes. The Powell Federal Reserve does not display this kind of intelligence. Last year, it managed to produce multi-decade-high inflation by choosing ...

Join NY Cannabis Insider for our next full-day conference on Sept. 21 at the Pearl Street Grill & Brewery in Buffalo. Tickets will sell out. This guest column is from Jeff Jones, an AUCC based in the ...

It would be hard to find a discipline stalked by more fallacy than economics. Many large libraries could be filled with thick books laying out the myriad ways in which the truth about human action is ...

Paul Solman: On Tuesday, we posted the first transcript from a series of interviews I’ve done with Paul Samuelson over the years. This installment picks up where the last left off, explaining the most ...

While researchers say more formal teaching is needed, eight in 10 high school seniors have a basic understanding of economics, according to a new national economics assessment. “The Nation’s Report ...