Despite China's emergence as an economic power and all the talk about how America has become a service economy, U.S. manufacturing is alive and well.

Despite China's emergence as an economic power and all the talk about how America has become a service economy, U.S. manufacturing is alive and well. But there is a fly in the ointment -- the U.S. has become dangerously dependent on imports of raw materials needed to keep the economy moving.

Media and public response to statements by the Obama administration regarding the Christmas day attack reflected a desire for more decisive action.

The authors discuss how quantitative assessments of uncertainty can be conducted, and we examine the effort that they would require of agencies developing Regulatory Impact Analyses.

The market stampeded into stocks in 1998, houses in 2005, and now gold in 2009.

The GOP wants to cut $61 billion of discretionary nondefense spending from the total budget of $3.7 trillion, and Democrats are responding as if this will spell the end of Western civilization.

To motivate businesses to ensure product safety and thus encourage durable growth, China must allow free news media and courts that uphold the law instead of the status quo.

Canadians should resist the urge to approve permanently higher government spending amid their current commodities boom.