Fed Dot-Plot Forecasting Fiascos: June 2008 and June 2021
Alan Reynolds The Federal Reserve chairman and Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) always imagine that they can prevent recession by anticipating trouble in time to stop it. If that were…
The State of Student Loan Forgiveness: August 2024
Andrew Gillen Note, this post updates last month’s post. The biggest changes from last month include: the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals halting the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE)…
Election Policy Roundup II
Walter Olson Here’s another roundup of short-form items on election law and policy: For all the occasional creakiness of our decentralized way of holding elections under the Constitution, the reports…
Did the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Pay for Itself?
Adam N. Michel The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was projected to lower revenue by $1.5 trillion over ten years by the Joint Committee on Taxation at the…
Milton Friedman: ‘Crack Would Never Have Existed If You Had Not Had Drug Prohibition’
Michael Chapman Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, a libertarian and one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century, was born on July 31, 1912, and died on November 16,…
How the Market of Tech Platforms Uncovered Potential Google Search Bias
David Inserra Social media users took to X to alert supporters of former President Donald Trump that Google appeared to be suppressing or altering various search results to favor his…
Interstate Migration of High Earners and Retirees
Chris Edwards Which states are Americans moving to and which are they leaving? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released interstate migration data for 2022. The data include the domestic…
12 Graphs on Why Maduro Could Only “Win” by Stealing Venezuela’s Election
Daniel Raisbeck On July 26, I noted that the crucial question about Venezuela’s upcoming election was not whether Maduro would lose in a landslide, as he did according to serious…
IG Report Shows Need for Transparency in Government Communication with Social Media Firms
David Inserra In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Murthy v. Missouri, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) recently released its investigation into how the DOJ…
Will Incumbents Block Innovations in Veterinary Health Care Delivery?
Jeffrey A. Singer Over the years, several so-called midlevel human health care professions have emerged organically, responding to a growing demand for health care services for which, in many cases,…