Those making policy should be careful not to apply New Deal-style policies in an attempt to fix the current economic crisis.

In "Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II," Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman describes how the U.S. won history’s greatest conflict by harnessing free market principles and private-sector creativity and innovation to increase war production.

We need a Republican president — not to fix the economy, but to get the credit.

Banking instability and regulation in the United States suggests the need to reevaluate views of the inherent instability of banking systems and the value of deposit insurance.

The Great Depression changed the institutions governing monetary policy.

Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Representative Ron Kind (D-WI), Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) will begin the discussion of the need to reform agriculture subsidies in the 2012 Farm Bill. Barry K. Goodwin of North Carolina State University will discuss many of the myths and legends incorrectly used by the agriculture industry to extend these harmful policies.

This paper uses individual bank data to address the question of whether solvent Chicago banks failed during the panic as the result of confusion by depositors.