Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. Shortages are most damaging when they involve basic ...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Allison Schrager is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering economics. A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, she is author of “An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other ...
President Donald Trump is veering sharply left on several key economic policies. Alarmed by voter frustration over affordability, he appears to be panicking. In doing so, he is making a fundamental ...
The Trump administration recently released an executive order directing Medicare and Medicaid drug reimbursement to be based on prices in other countries, using a model called Most Favored Nation (MFN ...
Mr. Mahoney is an economist and Mr. Ramamurti is a former deputy director of the National Economic Council. Democrats dominated the Nov. 4 elections, but the other big winner was price controls. In ...
The success of political slogans often brings forth intellectual defenders, even when the slogans themselves lack merit. Calls to “freeze the rent” and cap electricity prices before this month’s ...
Simple and neat solutions are alluring but often wrong. A case in point is President Trump’s proposal to adopt a most favored nation (MFN) policy. The MFN sets Medicaid’s price for a drug at the ...
A District Court judge dismissed the chamber’s lawsuit last year and the organization appealed to the 6th U.S. District Court of Appeals. A central dispute in the case is whether the chamber of ...