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The New York Times did a classic the economy is awful story by highlighting the fact that 1.3 million homeowners might not be moving because of the...
The inflation hawks took March’s CPI as cause for celebration, inflation may not be dead yet. There is no doubt that it was a disappointing report...
The New York Times is apparently finding it difficult to be honest with its readers about the burden of student loan debt. It ran a...
I usually see things pretty much the same way as Paul Krugman, but I seriously disagree with his column “Bidenomics is making China angry....
I was more than a bit surprised to see the profit data. I really did believe that the profit surge during the pandemic was a one-off, associated with...
There is a steady drumbeat from people intent on making a major issue over the fact that many cities may have kept their schools closed for too long...
I have long been amazed at how major debates over various economic policy issues can have completely contradictory assumptions, and no one seems to...
It’s amazing how so many arguments in policy circles are transparently self-contradictory. Ross Douthat gave us a fantastic example in a...
Peter Coy used his column to beg President Biden not to use the term “greedflation” to explain the runup in inflation since the pandemic. I am...
The New York Times had a piece on the tax code changes that will take effect next year unless Congress acts to extend current provisions. One of the...
Most people don’t keep up on the details of government policy. This is understandable because they have lives to live, and can’t spend all their...
The media are pushing the economy is terrible story pretty much 24-7. They refuse to let the strong labor market and rapid real wage growth get in...
In prior decades we used to try to restrict the ability of the rich and very rich to buy elections. We have limits on campaign contributions to...
A Delaware state court judge ruled that the $56 billion pay package awarded to Elon Musk by Tesla’s board of directors in 2018 was illegal. The...
Major media outlets continually push the theme that young people can’t buy homes even though a larger share of households headed by someone under...
Republicans have proudly made themselves the party of chaos. In his tenure as president, Donald Trump was almost gleeful when he took executive...
We have been seeing numerous stories in the media about how people support Donald Trump because he did such a great job with the economy. Obviously,...
I have a lot of respect for Ro Khanna. He is an articulate and energetic progressive from the belly of the beast, Silicon Valley. I also appreciate...
It is amazing how ideology can be so thick that it prevents even highly educated people from thinking clearly. We saw this fact on display in a...
It is incredible how ideology can be so thick that it prevents even highly educated people from thinking clearly. We saw this fact on display in a...
Eduardo Porter had an interesting column in the Washington Post last week in which he argued that trade will be important in
The Republican Party, which now likes to call itself the party of working people, is demanding that President Biden agree
We all know about Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that he won the 2020 election. This is of course laughable, there
The New York Times ran a piece noting the huge increase in China’s use of solar power, but also highlighted concerns about its decision to build...
Mark Twain famously quipped that everyone always talks about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it. (This
The United States support of Ukraine, following the invasion by Russia, has featured prominently in the news in recent days as Republicans in Congress...
Robert Reich posted a table that tells us a huge amount about the U.S. economy. CEO pay of the largest carmakers in the world Honda: $2.3MNissan...
There is an iconic image from The Simpsons. It is a picture of Grandpa Simpson shaking his fist at the sky, under
The Washington Post has a long history of hating on powerful unions, like the United Auto Workers (UAW), or any factor that allows blue-collar...
Donald Trump claims that no one was harmed when he lied about the value of his assets on statements he made to lenders, because loans were paid off...
Catherine Rampell had an interesting column dealing with the question of when prices will “come back down?” Rampell correctly answered...
The strike of the UAW against the Big Three automakers raises many important issues that go well beyond the auto industry. It is worth taking a closer...