John Stossel

HighLowCloseChg.500Stocks1228.931219.501228.28+4.53100Stocks551.73547.41551.56+2.78MidCap400892.38884.32886.67—1.02SmallCap600408.40405.72405.77—0.73CloseChg.Yr.AgoValue LineGeometric363.08+0.44296.85Arithmetic2787.41+3.982165.07Russel…

Worstall has written quite an amusing book on the subject of how Green policies tend to backfire and make things worse. It’s a rather short book, that rather reflects his role as one of the world’s leading econobloggers. Tim, also an A…

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Stock indexes wobbled for most of the day Wednesday before turning positive in the afternoon. Traders expect the Tax Cut Compromise reached by President Barack Obama and Republican leaders to encourage growth in the U.S. economy. The Standard &…

— The modern Estate Tax was enacted in 1916, imposing a 10 percent tax on the portion of estates above $50,000. — The rate peaked at 77 percent from 1941 to 1976. From 1942 to 1976 it was imposed on estates larger than $60,000. —…

Income Tax Rates, Unemployment extension, Payroll Tax holiday, blah blah blah. For someone like me, looking for the hand of Special Interests in all political deals, the headliners in the Obama-GOP tax deal were yawners. But dig deepers, and there…

Stephen Budiansky passes along the latest nonsense from the loony right: According to the ever-reliable Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and various Tea Party websites, the original English settlers practiced a kind of collectivism is which all worked…

Today, City Journal celebrated its 20th anniversary at a University Club luncheon. It was a gathering of New York right-world elites — reconstructed ex-leftists like Sol Stern, apostate academics like Professor Robert P. George, Judy Miller …