Providing people with cash payments has benefits, but guaranteed employment and public services are a better option for transforming our economy.

Our House Economist sizes up the rich tech goons on their knowledge of internet economics. Who passes, and who fails?

As greedy private equity firms use pension funds to buy up huge swathes of the economy—everything from manufacturing plants to nursing homes, infrastructure, and rental housing—workers and the public are the ones getting screwed.

A new book shows that the same talking points have been recycled for centuries, to oppose every form of progressive change.

Economist Thomas Sowell portrays himself (and is portrayed by others) as a fearless defender of Cold Hard Fact against leftist idealogues. His work is a pseudoscholarly sham, and he peddles mindless, factually unreliable free market dogma.

The financial expert and author of “Permanent Distortion” gives insight into the real ways that money moves.

Today’s left seems less inclined to critique advertising, consumerism, and pop culture. Should we be more skeptical?

Most of us aren’t in the ownership class, so the fluctuations of the market don’t make much of a difference to our lives.