If only the economic world were that simple.

All of this highlights the importance of management providing clear guidance to investors about its dividend policy and investment opportunities.

With a free-market economy that embodies personal freedom, free choice and freedom to contract, there is no reason why we cannot continue to enjoy a fruitful future.

Incentives are needed by unskilled teenagers and by the most sophisticated, risk-taking venture capitalists.

Something is very much remiss here.

My advice to caregivers: Take advantage of any fleeting moment of rationality.

Nothing exceeds the happiness that flows from the fruits of one's honest efforts.

In the public-service sphere these costs come out of the hides of taxpayers, who, in contrast, cannot shift them forward.

What contributes to this dilemma is that Congress has placed two incompatible goals for the Fed to aim for: a stable price level, and full employment.

To help halt reckless government expansion does not require a meeting of the minds on the interpretation of these interests.

Rather than emphasize consumption stimulus, Obama should stress investment stimulus.

It is ironic that the availability of health welfare of all forms, plus private charities, accentuates the perverse incentive to forgo health insurance.

Remove tax and regulatory disincentives that weigh on us, and drastically simplify the tax code.