The Laffer Curve—the conceptual device illustrating how high marginal tax rates reduced revenue and economic growth—helped revolutionize tax policy around the world thirty five years ago. Today we need a new Laffer Curve—for regulation.  

David Leonhardt of the New York Times has it exactly backward: America’s corporate tax rates are driving economic activity abroad.

President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are going to miss out on the single biggest policy opportunity for the U.S. this year because of their ideological resistance to the idea that lower rates can increase revenue.

Experts in health care policy reached a consensus on a set of concrete, feasible steps that show promise for slowing spending growth and improving quality in health care.

Will Federal Reserve Chairman Mr. Bernanke respond to the present financial market crisis with sufficient force and timeliness?

Medicare is facing a fiscal calamity: how can the growth of Medicare spending be limited while ensuring that beneficiaries continue to have access to affordable health care?

Even if GDP soars, financial markets might continue behaving in ways that defy the economic data unless stable and democratic governments take root in the Middle East.

Recent environmental news out of China has lent new momentum to the gloomy view of China's environmental future amidst its rush for economic growth, butthe gloom may be overstated.