With a sluggish economy, high unemployment, and unprecedented deficit spending, growing the economy and curbing federal spending are top priorities in Washington. A now-popular target for reform is regulation, which even President Obama claims to have "stifled innovation" and to have had "a...

The Lisbon Council's 2015 study on intellectual property is shown to be a showcase of methodological blunder, including the use of five different currencies in an inter-country analysis, cherry picking results from over 460 statistical tests based on sample sizes no larger than 8, and many other...

Using a time series of fifty years, the relationships between investment by telecommunications firms and Gross Domestic Product in the United States are examined. Granger-Sims causality tests are conducted, with proper allowance for both the non-stationarity of the data and lag length. These...