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In 1979, Ed and Patsy Bruce's song "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" became a hit with the release of Waylon and Willie's version. One interpretation of this song can be taken to…

"Our future with electric vehicles will have some unexpected bumps in the road, too. We see some already — problems getting critical materials, attracting consumers, building a national charging network. But at least we…

"My view is the Fed should pause its rate hikes in the short-run. Disintermediation might be the cause of recent money-supply trends. In the long-run, the Fed should resume forward guidance, but not on interest…

If you’ve checked the news recently, you’ve probably witnessed headlines and front pages dominated by the story of the United States’ second biggest bank failure in history: that of Silicon Valley Bank, or SVB. The failure…

A political fight is brewing in Israel, and the stakes involve more than candidates. After the fifth round of parliamentary elections since 2019 — a consequence of political stalemate — Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu was able to…

"Campaigning almost solely for expressive votes in a vastly divided country threatens to put a prudent government out of the question, and as Jeremy Collier wrote, 'Prudence is the necessary ingredient in all the…

If you’ve ever dabbled in the stock market, you may have heard about options. Options are a special kind of financial instrument that are a little more complicated than stocks, but also offer more flexibility for investors.…

"Chefs, servers, and hosts often have a wide set of skills that cannot be easily replicated by AI technologies, which suggests fears of AI’s unemployment effects are overblown." ~ Byron Carson & Katie Pitcher

In the United Kingdom, four students have recently been suspended from their school after slightly damaging a Quran, despite there being “no malicious intent by those involved” according to the BBC report. A boy had taken the…

This week for Ask an Economist, I have a question from AJ who asks (edited for clarity), “This isn't entirely about economics but rather the morality of capitalism. How do you reconcile the fact that the free market…