Browsing: Economy
1. “Marrying a cousin leads to more than a two-year reduction in age-five life expectancy, compounding the documented early-life effects.”…
“Fiscal dominance” refers to the state’s expenditures (fiscal policy) dominating monetary policy. Instead of the legislature (Congress in the US)…
Amtrak is launching a new high-speed Acela train, but there is one wrinkle: It isn’t actually faster, yet. Five next-generation…
I am against it. Here is my Free Press column, and an excerpt: This won’t be the last government takeover—or…
…the federal government did something extraordinary: It committed more than $140 billion toward the region’s recovery. Adjusted for inflation, that’s…
Soon before the election that made Javier Milei president, 108 economists around the world (including prominent names like Thomas Piketty,…
Here is the conclusion of the piece: To reiterate, the key point in this piece is that high administrative costs…
1. Ye Zhang. 2. On the new AI and jobs paper. 3. David Perell podcast with Joe Liemandt. And transcript.…
My last post in this series on We Have Never Been Woke by Musa al-Gharbi ended by mentioning another form of symbolic…
In my post How High Government Pay Wastes Talent and Drains Productivity I pointed to evidence that high government compensation…