Another New Pandemic Low for Weekly Initial Claims for Unemployment Benefits
Initial claims for regular state unemployment insurance fell to 444,000 for the week ending May 15, a decrease of 34,000 ...
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Frank Knight and the Place of Principles in Economics and Politics
It is sometimes necessary to recall the old adage that the more things change, the more they stay the same. ...
Liberals Turning Against the Lockdown Left
Science issues unfortunately sometimes become political issues, the most prominent example of which, as polls show, is “global climate change.” ...
Assessing Potential for Higher Inflation
While I strongly expect that we will see higher than expected inflation during the approaching cycle, we are still in ...
The Lumber Market Delirium
As government-imposed lockdown measures confined hundreds of millions of Americans to their homes, many began to entertain DIY projects they previously ...
The Dubious Premise for Expanding the Regulatory State
In the US, there are two basic ways in which the government exercises power over its citizens. The first is ...
The New York Times argues with itself about Biden and taxes
Last Thursday the New York Times reported what should be obvious, but that eludes most in our midst: the rich pay ...
‘The’ science is coming for you again
I was recently driving east from Omaha for sixteen hours and there was nothing much to do so I let ...
Burning issues of government spending
The Biden administration recently proposed a $2 trillion spending plan supposedly aimed at improving the country’s infrastructure. The White House’s “fact sheet” ...
Climate, CO2 optimism
A recent debate between climate optimist John Christy (University of Alabama, Huntsville) and climate pessimist Kerry Emanuel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), hosted by Russ Roberts ...