In 2010, not too long after the financial crisis, Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a talk titled “Central Bank Independence, Transparency, and Accountability.” “A broad consensus,” he argued, “has emerged…

There is a growing buzz in the media that the Federal Reserve and other central banks should provide support due to any slowdown that accompanies the coronavirus. Slow or fast, the virus will spread.…

Over the past year, the Food and Drug Administration undertook a “historic crackdown” of the e-cigarette industry. Recent bans on selected e-cigarette flavors are certainly a step in this direction.…

I remember two things from my high school economics class: credit cards have interest rates, and Moneyball is an interesting movie.

That class tried to cover too much information in too little time…

In 2006, Johnathan Lubecky was deployed to Iraq. While fighting for his country, Johnathan faced constant enemy strikes, one of which resulted in a traumatic brain injury. Exposures to the horrors of…

From 1999 to 2017, nearly 400,000 people died from abusing opioids in the United States. In 2017 alone, more than 47,000 people died from opioid-related causes, a third of whom had a legal…

Recent intervention in the overnight lending market is not precisely an intervention. In some ways, it is a dis-intervention. Viewed in terms of the net effect of activity by the Federal Reserve, the…

In 2015, the Centers for Disease Control ranked diabetes seventh among the leading causes of death in the United States. If current trends continue, skyrocketing death rates and other serious…

Over the past year, the Food and Drug Administration has seemed determined to “wipe out the entire vaping industry.” As former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who spearheaded much of the current…

We’re only a few weeks into the new year, and the Food and Drug Administration will soon make a decision that will affect pharmaceutical regulation for decades. Last year, after failing an…