The failure of the Congressional Super Committee means that major economic policy decisions are likely to wait for 2013. The government will be funded and not bump up against the debt ceiling, and perhaps some modest initiatives might go forward such as renewing payroll tax cuts or extended unemployment insurance benefits.

How out-of-pocket health spending added 10 million people to the ranks of the poor.

Southgate Master Fund v. United States exemplifies the difficult trade-off between tax collection and economic efficiency and shows how the IRS should prioritize its efforts.

The animal spirits of high earners are going to be directed away from productive investment and toward tax avoidance.

Sadly, 43 years after CBS News ran a documentary called "Hunger in America" it could do a new version coming to the same, if not more dire and depressing, conclusions. Hunger is here, in a real and palpable way, exacerbated by our tough economic conditions and persistent unemployment, but worsened as well by the high cost of food, especially nutritious food.

In this “Health Care 101” guide, Christopher J. Conover, author of the just-released “American Health Economy Illustrated,” distinguishes fact from fiction and answers some of the most fundamental questions about health care and health spending in America.

This press release discusses Daniel N. Shaviro's new monograph from the AEI Press.