In President Donald Trump’s latest effort to wall the U.S. off from the rest of the world, his administration has ditched a plan to make it easier for successful foreign entrepreneurs to come and work in America. The decision may play well with the president’s nationalist base, but it will not help the U.S. economy. The administration has delayed (and ...

Almost overnight, it seems, the decade-long expansion of rooftop solar in the US has come to an end. Installations are set to fall by 2 percent this year, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Partly to blame is a widening campaign to end a key customer incentive, homeowners’ ability to sell their extra energy back to the grid at retail ...

Paradigm shifts do not come often in economics. From Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes, there is only a handful of scholars who can claim to have radically changed the way we think about how markets should work and what governments can do to improve their functioning. One such moment came almost 50 years ago when Milton Friedman delivered his ...