Make Work Pay Again
I used Labor Day to write my biweekly column for the Hoover Institution’s online publication Defining Ideas. Hey, that’s why...
Labor Market
Corcoran on Methodology and the Minimum Wage
Regular reader Kevin Corcoran sent me another email that’s worth posting as a standalone blog post. Here it is: Earlier...
No More Shortage of Labor Than of Diamonds
It is an interesting phenomenon that a first-rate financial newspaper can, without adding a big smiley, run a major title...
Cecilia Rouse on Biden Economic Policy, Part III
This is my final post on Cecilia Rouse’s talk last Thursday on Biden’s Economic policies. Part I is here and...
Cecilia Rouse on Biden Economic Policy, Part II
Yesterday I posted on the Zoom talk that Biden CEA chair Cecilia Rouse gave to a Stanford audience last Thursday....
Cecilia Rouse on Biden Economic Policy, Part I
Last Thursday, Cecilia Rouse, chair of President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, gave a Zoom talk to the Stanford Institute...
The Intricate Economic Effects of Apartheid
Someone named Shaun King has claimed that Elon Musk was raised in Apartheid by a white nationalist. The claim is...
Understating Progress: Economic Report of the President on Falling Poverty
The 2022 Economic Report of the President is finally out. It was released on April 14, the latest ever. Here’s...
Starbucks Vs. a Woke Brigade?
The battle between Starbucks and Workers United trying to barge in may not be sufficient to persuade the company and...
Rhoads on Unemployed Men
One issue that I didn’t have room to cover in “A Wide-Ranging Book for Non-Economists and Economists,” Regulation, Spring 2022, my...
