…lowly nails, etc. The amount of waste is the building of housing is phenomenal. Economics, Finance, and Labor Low and moderate income taxpayers can benefit from the Earned Income Tax…

…have. For better or for worse, they have been a dominant factor in US and World Economics since the 1970s. A big investment opportunity hole was left by offshoring. One…

…into Steve Roth since he posted to Tom Walker’s post. He is allowing me to poach from his new substack Wealth Economics and an older blog site Asymptosis. Happy about…

…Pessimistic Workers with higher levels of formal education were markedly less optimistic about the job market in 2025 than those with less schooling. This finding could reflect white-collar hiring slowdowns…

Boston Public Radio May 19th episode held a discussion of the consequences for the nation when abortion is outlawed. The guest was Jonathan Gruber, the Ford Professor of Economics at…

…Rucker, Washington Post, today Well, the big debate among political pundits today is, of course, whether Romney’s bull-in-a-china-shop performance will hurt his election chances, given that, after all, it’s economics…

…years (see About page). Mark Thoma at Economist View approaches the role of econblogs through pointing to the disconnect between academics and public use of the language of economics in…

…at LSE (under the auspices of the New Economics Foundation) exploring the idea of working-time reduction with an eventual goal of moving to a normal working week of 21 hours….

…about the disastrous 2004 repatriation tax holiday, and they were proven wrong then. They are based on the same bad economics now, the economics that says that “the high U.S….

…a trained economist (Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, two master’s degrees, and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics / economics). I have fifteen years of experience since leaving graduate school, having…