And how the Democrats' plans to boost capital-gains taxes may discourage future innovation. We continue to fight COVID-19 and its variants, but the rapid development of vaccines last year put us on the offensive against the disease. Vaccines from Moderna of Massachusetts and BioNTech of Germany have led the way, with 360 million doses delivered ...

Now is not the time to hammer food establishments trying to crawl out of the pandemic. The pandemic and related closures hit the restaurant industry hard, with about 90,000 eateries closing permanently. When the pandemic finally subsides, America will need entrepreneurs to launch new restaurants and fill the void. But restaurant entrepreneurs ...

Politicians complain loudly about this problem, but their own policies are generating it. There are economic storm clouds on the horizon, but for now wages are rising, jobs are plentiful, and poverty is falling. Democrats running for president need an economic line of attack, so the solution has been to focus on wealth inequality. Senator ...

Billionaires aren’t Piketty’s ‘rentiers’ — America’s wealthy demonstrate entrepreneurial innovation. Are rich people idle “rentiers,” as economist Thomas Piketty calls them, who inherit wealth and add no social value? In supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders’ plan for higher estate taxes, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich claimed that “America ...

Canada's Tax-Free Savings Accounts are much more flexible than Roth IRAs. What are we waiting for? It's only 2014, but politicians are already casting about for the magic tax vehicle they can ride to the White House in 2016. Most strategists agree that a plan to lift the financial pressure on the middle class will do the trick. All ...