Jennifer Simonson is a business journalist with a decade of experience covering entrepreneurship and small business. Drawing on her background as a founder of multiple startups, she writes for Forbes ...

Under both the Donald Trump and Joe Biden administrations, the U.S. government has had a seemingly unquenchable thirst for national security regulations limiting investment, trade, and information ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opportunity cost refers to the potential profit provided by a missed opportunity—the result of choosing one alternative for ...

If you were to do a cost-benefit analysis of your lunch, it would be pretty difficult to do the calculation without the sandwich. But it appears that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ...

Arthur Grimes has previously received funding from the New Zealand Treasury to examine the social discount rate which is one input into CBAx. Arthur Grimes is a Senior Fellow of Motu Research, and is ...