During the pandemic, a frequently re-iterated claim was that the contraction of the economy was not dramatically less severe in areas that adopted milder policies but reported higher levels of…
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Economy
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There’s good news on the inflation front. The Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index grew at an annualized rate of 3.8 percent in June. The “core” figure, which excludes volatile…
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The affirmative action game, in full swing for over forty years now, will continue despite the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard. All that’s happened is…
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Most of us denizens of modern, liberal society would say that, if you’re an adult, you do indeed have a right to obtain, retain, and use a yo-yo lawfully, either…
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By 1963, the United States, the Soviet Union, France, the United Kingdom, and China had conducted over 500 nuclear tests in the atmosphere. The fallout from these tests poisoned our…
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At the end of its current term, the Supreme Court issued several very important decisions, including that in 303 Creative v. Elenis. That case involved the efforts by the Colorado…
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Since 2008 we have published (with the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation) estimates on the degree to which cigarettes are smuggled, by state, including those exported to Canada or imported from…
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The attention given to the recent decision in Biden v. Nebraska rests fundamentally on political differences that have become increasingly stark, and that will no doubt continue to be the…
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Reservations at restaurants serve as a way to engage in future planning. It is a lot easier to eat at your city’s best restaurant at 6 P.M. when you know…
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No better, more reliable forecaster of the US business cycle has existed in recent decades than the initial shape of the US Treasury yield curve, and since last October it’s…