This Bradley Lecture is based on Brooks’s new book, “The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise” (Basic Books, May 2012).

In the past decade, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s budget has increased threefold and the fundamental problems remain. For the sake of investors, who have lost billions in fraudulent schemes that should have been discovered, it is high time that these organizational issues be addressed.

At this event, we will discuss the Obama administration's FY 2013 defense budget and the broader context behind its new strategic guidance.

Here is another good news/bad news column about the 112th Congress.

At this AEI event, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan will deliver remarks on the nation's fiscal and economic challenges.

If ever we need evidence of ideology run rampant, the House vote to eliminate the annual American Community Survey and the Economic Census to provide basic information on the state of businesses and industries in the country and data used for generating quarterly gross domestic product estimates is exhibit A.

As the House of Representatives prepared to consider the Small Business Tax Cut Act, AEI economist Aparna Mathur gave testimony on why higher taxes and regulation on small businesses impede sustainable economic growth. 

Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Representative Ron Kind (D-WI), Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) will begin the discussion of the need to reform agriculture subsidies in the 2012 Farm Bill. Barry K. Goodwin of North Carolina State University will discuss many of the myths and legends incorrectly used by the agriculture industry to extend these harmful policies.