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Over the last few years, U.S. oil producers have been drilling with fewer rigs while still increasing production. In today’s guest essay,... Read More

We’re told that artificial intelligence is so amazing that even the best and brightest among us can’t hold a candle to it, and... Read More

The Iran war has pushed oil prices higher over the past several months. From around $60 per barrel in early February, it reached a peak of... Read More

The financial commentariat went into today’s economic-data dump looking for a reason to panic. The preferred storyline was obvious... Read More

Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman of S&P Global and one of the world's leading energy experts, joins The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism to... Read More

Peggy Noonan is asking if we can “Survive” the AI revolution?  Her skepticism about Silicon Valley has her predicting that a... Read More

Whoever figures out how to mobilize the folks fed-up with the current state of the city can make New York City great again. Read More

Public pension fund managers have run the same accounting maneuver for fifty years. It is entirely legal, widely practiced, and engineered to... Read More

After beginning the war, but before his conduct of it turned it into an embarrassment, President Donald Trump said: “On the way... Read More

Adam Smith’s vision of a “system of natural liberty” was shared by our founders. Read More

Wealth tax proposals are popping up across the country, sparking economic debates about tax fairness. The question centers on whether very... Read More

You've saved it, but how do you spend it? Read More

With Germany poised to become the latest country to raise its retirement age, that unpopular option may fall on Americans as Social Security... Read More

As Kevin Warsh campaigned to be President Trump’s choice to chair the Federal Reserve, he repeatedly invoked a specific moment in Fed... Read More

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan died Monday at age 100, leaving quite an impression on monetary policy. Read More

Why is the S&P 500 lagging? Read More

Looking for stocks to invest in? These high-quality stocks are all trading at attractive prices. Read More

Long before Amazon and Walmart, politicians targeted A&P for lowering prices with scale and efficiency.  Read More

Economics is full of counterintuitive insights. Rent control can make housing less affordable. Business failures can strengthen an economy.... Read More

The first Englishman to reach the New World brought home chips and fags. Read More

A strategy that feels like free money is a long term loser. Read More

Anthropic and OpenAI may not like current federal controls on their products, but it will be consumers who end up getting screwed. Read More

After years of cheap capital, many companies drifted away from managing for shareholder value in favor of loosely defined stakeholder models.... Read More

The narrative in markets is changing from “lower oil prices mean lower inflation” to “lower oil prices mean more demand in... Read More

People often hold optimistic views about federal government spending programs. They assume that new and expanded programs can fix the... Read More

Three biggest macro risks today. Read More

This century, debt began to grow faster than the economy—as measured by the gross domestic product (GDP)—driven by tax cuts that... Read More