Sir, Lawrence Summers is certainly correct in asserting that the right focus of the European countries must be on restoring economic growth if they are to restore fiscal sustainability (“Growth not austerity is the best...

By keeping the focus on better health for real people, perhaps we’ll develop both the humility to recognize how little we still understand as well as the drive to ensure — and emphatically demand — that our advances ultimately wind up not only in papers, but also in patients.

After two years of sitting on the Korea FTA, the administration managed to renegotiate in such a way as to slow liberalization. The TPP holds enormous promise, but no end line is in sight, and the administration has not even sought negotiating authority yet. Where the administration has moved on trade, it has usually been in response to strong pressure from Congress.

At this event, Alan Viard will present the X tax proposal while James Mackie of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute will offer commentary.

The last thing countries like Spain, Ireland, Greece, Italy, and Portugal need is a strong currency at a time when they are trying to redress their highly compromised public finances in the midst of severe economic recessions.

As NATO summits go, this weekend's meeting of the alliance's members in Chicago may be memorable if only for being the least memorable one in recent history. Of course, quiet summits are not necessarily bad summits. 

The Democrats have failed to offer any substantive changes to their economic platforms.

The federal government needs to take action to prevent a recession by increasing tax cuts and lowering federal spending.