A Way Out
At some point over the next 13 years, Social Security will undergo big changes when, according to the Social Security...
Antony Davies
From Victims to Pawns: New York’s About-Face on Marijuana
New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently announced the creation of a $200 million fund dedicated to investing in New York’s...
A Time for Reckoning
Consumer prices are up almost nine percent from where they were a year ago. For the median U.S. household, that’s...
The Third Party
Americans have lived with a two-party political system for so long that it’s natural to assume that the Founders designed...
What Economics Can Tell Us About Mandating Vaccines
The origin of the Covid vaccine lies with epidemiology. But the question as to whether the vaccine should be mandatory...
A Perfect Storm of Incentives
It is not yet clear whether history will remember the 2020s more for an outbreak of a deadly virus, or...
Not Hyperinflation, but Plenty Bad Enough
Since 2012, monthly consumer inflation has averaged (on an annualized basis) less than two percent. Prior to this year, the...
They’re Coming for You
For years, politicians have claimed that the rich weren’t paying their “fair share.” While it’s taken a decade or more...
The Fall of the Dominoes
Inflation, as measured by the PCE (personal consumption expenditures) index, was, on an annualized basis, over 7 percent in March...
