…little more than Arthur Laffer’s napkin drawn curve (not based in empirical evidence) and general Chicago School “free marketarian” and “trickle-down” theories. Oh, and gimmicks like using “dynamic scoring” that…

…Dallas, and add the Chicago PMI, and finally discount for the unusual strength this year in these regional indexes vs. production. Here was my conclusion: The average of the 5…

…fascism That brings to mind this piece in the NY Times in 2004, or this one in the Chicago Tribune by Pullitzer Prize winner Clarence Page: Harvard law professor Lani…

…price pressures are accelerating! 4. Regional manufacturing. The Dallas Fed and the Chicago PMI both improved even more from September to October: As a result, even taking into account that…

…with many leading economists (notably the two examples I have in mind work at the University of Chicago). Many economists rely on the assumption that there is Ricardian equivalence and…

…Corp. said it’s struggling to run a Chicago bakery after it lost a third of its workers in a clampdown on 800 immigrants without sufficient documentation. About 35 percent of…

…U.S. cities (Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York) finds that 12 percent of tipped workers had tips stolen by their employer or supervisor.2 Further, recent research shows that workers in…

…David H. Padden, a Chicago investor who had also been a director of the CATO Institute. They’ve advocated for fracking, stood up for tobacco companies, and advocate tireless for global…

…National Convention in Chicago. He had come to serve as floor manager for Treasury Secretary (and fellow Ohioan) John Sherman in what was expected to be a three-way fight for…

…$5 billion in investment, this development attracted 238 bids from cities and counties in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The finalists: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Indianapolis,…