Economy & Business

What was sold as a win for common ground is really a win for politically connected companies. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he bipartisan infrastructure bill that just passed the Senate contains something that truly cuts across party lines:…

New townhomes under construction in Tampa, Fla., May 5, 2021. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) How deregulation can help solve our housing shortage A recent Wall Street Journal article painted a grim picture of the housing market. “Construction…

Outside a “vocational skills education center” in Dabancheng, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, September 4, 2018 (Thomas Peter/Reuters) The Senate passed a bill to curtail imports from Xinjiang Province in China on Wednesday…

A visitor walks past Raytheon stand at the 53rd International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport near Paris, France, June 21, 2019. (Pascal Rossignol/Reuters) Defense contractor Raytheon launched an “anti-racism” program in summer…

Logo of Exxon Mobil Corporation on a monitor above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (File photo/Reuters) The week of May 24: climate change and corporatism, inventing an economic crisis, woke capital, and more. A few days ago…

(Sviatlana Lazarenka/Getty Images) But what should millions of Americans without credit cards or bank accounts do? In 2017, the Federal Reserve estimated that one in four American families did not have enough savings to take care of an…

Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in Yalta, February 1945 (National Archives and Records Administration/Wikimedia Commons) Roosevelt today would prefer Trump to Biden. Allow me to explain. In the many years that I have known him, I…

President Biden speaks at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 5, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The Biden administration is committed to applying the freshest thinking of the 1930s to contemporary challenges, while…

Sen. Mitt Romney (R., Utah) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 19, 2021. (Erin Scott/Reuters) As Democrats charge forward with a huge ‘child allowance,’ conservatives should take a cautious approach. Alot…

(lucadp/Getty Images) Trading app Robinhood on Thursday restricted buying or trading in GameStop stock along with several other formerly obscure stocks that are spiking following a scramble of social media driven trading activity this…