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The number of burglaries in the US fell 9.8% last year, according to the quarterly crime report released last month by the Federal Bureau of...
In 2007, 4,316,233 babies were born in the US, just beating out the previous record of 4.3 million set at the peak of the baby boom in 1957 —...
The number of murders and non-negligent manslaughters, aka homicides — the most reliably measured crimes as well as the most serious — fell in New...
This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a lucrative portfolio of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . If you’ve been watching a lot of American...
Our understanding of the US labor market is based to a remarkable extent on a few questions asked each month as part of the Current Population Survey,...
It’s a common sight at Manhattan intersections: An impatient or oblivious pedestrian edges a step or two onto a busy avenue well before the light...
A pleasant way to while away a few minutes (or hours if you’re really into it) is to visit the American Viticultural Area Map Explorer hosted by the...
The number of people who are apprehended by US Border Patrol agents or voluntarily surrender to them at or near the border with Mexico has skyrocketed...
Three years and 10 months after New York City began shutting down in the face of Covid-19, nonfarm 1 payroll employment in the city finally surpassed...
It has now been four years since the US job market went into an unprecedented freefall because of the Covid-19 pandemic. With that anniversary and the...
For most of human history (and probably prehistory), higher male status was linked to having more children. This relationship between positive status...
After Covid-19 arrived in 2020, a lot of wealthy people fled locked-down California. Elon Musk, the world’s second-richest human, moved to Texas,...
From May to October 2020, five public statues in Portland, Oregon, were either torn down by protesters/rioters/vandals or damaged so badly that city...
In the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, many people with the means to do so left New York City and New York state. With state finances in...
Remember the productivity mini-freakout of 2022 and early 2023? Real output per hour in the nonfarm business sector, the most watched measure of...
Shoplifting has become a contentious topic in the US lately. Viral videos of audacious shoplifters, such as the “flash mob” that ransacked a...
From 1987 to 2019, Connecticut was the richest state in the US as measured by per capita personal income. In 2020, it lost out — by $10 — to...
This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a disinflationary (that is, free) assortment of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . In the quarter...
The US is the world’s top producer of oil and natural gas, and its production of both has been breaking records this year. This simple and...
One of the biggest shifts in economic thinking in recent decades has involved minimum wages. In the 1970s and 1980s, the consensus among academic ...
This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a Boxing Day gift of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . Why did so many economists wrongly predict that...
Santa Claus is in a sense native to New York City. If you’re willing to accept “St. A Claus,” he made his first known written appearance in the...
Two hundred years ago this week, on Dec. 23, 1823, a poem was published anonymously (as most poems were in those days) in the Troy Sentinel in upstate...
Last year was a record one for personal income taxes in the US and close to a record for taxes overall. But at 27.7% of gross domestic product, US...
Market rents in the US are, depending on which measure you look at, either rising slowly or falling outright. Home purchase prices, after a slight dip...
It’s that time of year when Americans talk turkey. Somewhere close to 90% of us will even eat some on Thanksgiving, past polls indicate. Yet turkey...
Inflation is edging back toward pre-pandemic rates in the US, but rent inflation still has a long way to go. To put it into numbers, the all-items...
In the decade before the pandemic, the amount of office space per worker in the US shrank steadily — a trend given the charming name...
The Covid-19 pandemic was a huge shock for the restaurant industry, with spending on and employment in food services both falling almost 50% from...
Since taking a big leap upward in the 1940s and 1950s, the homeownership rate in the US has been remarkably steady since the 1960s, with close to...
Early in March 2020, I decided to write about the risks posed by Covid-19. I have no background in epidemiology or even health journalism, but I can...
This summer Gallup made headlines with a poll that asked respondents to say whether or not they considered it “safe to live in or visit” each...
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