Economy Playing Chicken with the Federal Budget: The Rational Stupidity of Shutdowns by October 17, 2025 by October 17, 2025 “Chicken” is a game where two people, or two groups, want different things, in a… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Toxic Empathy Is Killing NYC’s Gifted Programs by October 17, 2025 by October 17, 2025 Zohran Mamdani announced early this month that, should he win the New York City mayoral… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy How to Prove Economists Wrong About Tariffs: Never Do What You Threatened by October 16, 2025 by October 16, 2025 On and shortly after Liberation Day, economists warned that tariffs would raise prices, snarl supply… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Sow a Trade War, Harvest a Farm Crisis by October 16, 2025 by October 16, 2025 Across the United States, harvesters are beginning to scythe their way through fields of crops.… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy A Government Shutdown Is Less Scary Than Its Dysfunction-As-Usual by October 15, 2025 by October 15, 2025 Government is presently “shut down” for failure of Congress to pass a budget for the… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy The Fed Cuts, but the Market Shrugs: Why Mortgage Rates Refuse to Fall by October 15, 2025 by October 15, 2025 I wrote a few weeks ago about how Trump’s manipulation of the Federal Reserve would… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy The 2025 Nobel in Economics and the Roots of Enduring Growth by October 14, 2025 by October 14, 2025 This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics recognizes groundbreaking work on how innovation, entrepreneurship, and creative… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy The Pandemic That Broke Our Faith in Modeling by October 14, 2025 by October 14, 2025 Several incidents in the COVID pandemic’s first two years forced me to confront the uncomfortable… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy What Hamburger Helper Knows and GDP Misses by October 14, 2025 by October 14, 2025 By every official measure, the economy seems to be doing well. Personal income, disposable income,… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Universal Childcare: Real Problem, Wrong Solution by October 13, 2025 by October 13, 2025 Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced in September that New Mexico will become the first state… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail