Congress should not be making it easier for corporations to shirk their pension obligations--and neither President George W. Bush nor Senator John Kerry should remain silent when they do.

The one thing on which our political leaders seem to agree is the need for corporate tax reform. But amid all of the promising rhetoric there is significant cause for concern. Many proposals, particularly those of Messrs. Obama and Santorum, seem to have unlearned many of the lessons of modern economics.

The United States overtly defaulted on its obligations in the 1930s, when the U.S. government refused to pay its gold bonds in gold, in violation of its clear promise to do so.

In less than twenty-five years, government “affordable housing” and other housing policies have turned a healthy market into a financial ruin. Until Fannie and Freddie’s market dominance and the government’s role in the housing finance system are substantially reduced or eliminated, the United States will continue to have an inferior and unstable housing market.

Canadian officials bear no blame in the disclosure that Barack Obama's campaign tried to play both sides of the free trade debate.

The debt limit, as currently defined, is meaningless. The limit does not need to be raised; it needs to be reformed.

Barack Obama's Social Security tax increase would do little to address the funding shortfall.

Barack Obama's Social Security tax increase would do little to address the funding shortfall.