Since this issue of Faster, Please! also includes a Q&A, I’m going to keep the essay short. That said, the essay hardly unrelated to the Q&A (below) about America’s recent startup boom. New companies ...

With Thanksgiving upon us once again, we offer a reminder of the economic lesson that made our first Thanksgiving possible with this piece by Benjamin Powell, adapted from its first appearance in 2004 ...

The debate over whether the economy is good or bad has been one of the defining public fights of this era. After the economy completely bottomed out in 2020 and America experienced Great ...

Tech companies are pumping hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure to ramp up artificial intelligence. Some projections show the spending may be fueling nearly half of this year’s estimated ...

President Donald Trump's tariff plans are leaving people with many questions about when they have been used in the past, what kind of effect they have had, how that squares with the president's ...

The Trump administration aims to reset the economy to produce as much as it consumes, addressing the historical issue of spending more than we produce. Historical lessons from Spain's economic ...

.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025 in Washington, DC.; Ben Stein in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' The scene shows a high school ...