A side effect of the risk-assessment approach to student loans is to nudge the student cultures of college campuses in the direction of making responsible adult behavior more respectable.

Many claim that college graduates earn a million dollars more in a lifetime than high school graduates. This figure is grossly inflated.

President Barack Obama went back before the cameras again Wednesday, providing yet another recycling of fading rationales for his health reform product that more voters would rather leave on the Capitol Hill store shelves than purchase.

Detailed return-on-investment data should be available for more schools to help students make worthwhile investments of their time and money.

The compelling case for replacing income taxation with consumption taxation has nothing to do with border adjustments.

Although thecredit default swapmarket can be improved, excessive restrictions on it would create considerably more risk than it would eliminate.

Is life today more dangerous than it used to be? It certainly seems that way.

It is extremely difficult to concludethat the Sarbanes-Oxley Act conferred more tangible or intangible benefits than its tangible and intangible costs.