Why mask mandates, super-charged unemployment benefits, and the like have stuck around. Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman famously quipped that “nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” If only he’d lived to see this pandemic prove his words so prescient. When COVID-19 first reached our shores in early ...

The hypocrisy of Senator Schumer's effort to repeal the cap on the State and Local Tax Deduction is galling. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer claims to be a progressive Democrat and champion of the working class, but he's pulling every string he can right now to ensure that a tax cut for rich liberals makes it into President ...

When the dust settles and all the election drama finally comes to an end, a debate will undoubtedly reemerge over the need for another round of COVID-19 "stimulus" to propel the economic recovery. But the latest economic developments undermine the argument that further stimulus is necessary at all. The Labor Department released its latest ...