Regardless of whether proposed health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act are ever implemented successfully, consumers and employers need better tools to compare the relative cost and quality of the health care they are likely to receive under different plan options.

Some consumers and businesses might see a little extra cash this summer as a result of the 2010 health care law. The Kaiser Family Foundation recently reported an estimated $1.3 billion in rebates will be delivered from health insurers who spent more than the law allotted on administrative expenses and profits.

Austerity measures in Europe have been the topic of a heated and mostly confused debate in the economic world. During the May summit of the leading industrial nations at Camp David, German chancellor Angela Merkel and other European leaders pushed for continued European austerity. Keynesian critics argue that these policies destroy economic growth.

The dramatic fluctuations in world commodity markets in recent years caused an extended period of deep financial distress for US dairy farms, leading dairy farmers and other dairy interests to ask how dairy policy failed and how it can be fixed.

In his new book, “Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines,” Roger Bate explores the underground trade in illegal medicines that kills over 100,000 people per year and supplants billions of dollars of real products.

Adding a new mandatory "comparative effectiveness" test to the approval process for new drugs in the reauthorization of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Prescription Drug User Fee Act constitutes a needless waste of time and money.

The wireless ecosystem is intensely competitive and will remain so even if policymakers sit on their hands.