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The 2025 Thanksgiving season arrives with an unwelcome development: after last year’s brief and much-needed period of easing in several Thanksgiving staples, prices have...
Can regulation work when a market changes faster than a case can be litigated? The Justice Department filed its antitrust case against Google in...
Introduction The gold standard was a monetary system that defined a unit of a nation’s currency as a fixed weight of gold and made...
On August 28, 2025, Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the fourth-largest school district in the US, passed a $10.2 billion budget and is facing a...
The Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors got a taste of The Apprentice treatment last week. On August 25, President Trump removed Lisa Cook from...
For the first time in Gallup’s 90-year polling history, a majority of Americans now view moderate alcohol consumption as bad for one’s health. Just...
Although conversations between economists are essential — sharpening our thinking, challenging assumptions, and refining concepts — it’s easy to forget just how intractable and...
Although conversations between economists are essential — sharpening our thinking, challenging assumptions, and refining concepts — it’s easy to forget just how intractable and...
For the first time in Gallup’s 90-year polling history, a majority of Americans now view moderate alcohol consumption as bad for one’s health. Just...
The Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors got a taste of The Apprentice treatment last week. On August 25, President Trump removed Lisa Cook from...
Earth is going to hit “peak population” before the end of this century. Within 25 years, most of the world’s developed nations will be...
The Great Enrichment refers to substantial improvements in well-being, driven by comparatively permissive, enlightened, and liberal attitudes towards experimentation and entrepreneurship. Such attitudes coalesced...
In a TikTok video that went viral this week (newsworthy, I know), a barefaced young woman sits in her car, in the middle of...