One problem: Voters aren't buying it. President Biden recently promised to “modernize” regulatory review, and that includes a major overhaul of how agencies measure the benefits and costs of their ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Fred L. Smith Jr. Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Draft Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Under both the Donald Trump and Joe Biden administrations, the U.S. government has had a seemingly unquenchable thirst for national security ...

The Biden Administration is revising the rules for how agencies conduct cost-benefit analyses, and some CBA experts have expressed concerns. Earlier this year, President Biden issued an Executive ...

New rules from the Office of Management and Budget will change how the federal government weighs costs, enabling new efforts on climate change and poverty. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Washington ...

The arrival of the palm oil industry in Indonesia’s Papua region has wrought more than five times as much environmental and social damage than the benefits it has delivered, according to a new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Fred L. Smith Jr. Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Some aspire to understand whether federal regulations on the ...