…ACA subsidy) go up by double-digit percentage increases each year.  The official inflation rate bears no resemblance at all to the reality I actually experience.  And the great majority of…

Good explanation on who pays the tariffs imposed upon imports by Trump. Who Bears the Cost of Tariffs? Liberty Street Economics Mary Amiti, Chris Flanagan, Sebastian Heise, and David E….

…their heads above water. The large majority of important coincident data about income, spending, jobs, and sales bears this out. Meanwhile, needless to say over the past few days there…

…tariffs raise costs, who ultimately bears them?  The early empirical literature on the 2018–2019 tariffs generally found nearly complete pass-through to US import prices: the domestic economy bore most of the tax…

…that he can sell anything to anyone will save us from an even worse outcome, though of course he bears ultimate responsibility for this fiasco for recklessly going to war….

…last two quarters of 2025 both measures of deflated corporate profits rose sharply. Proprietors’ income did turn down slightly, and although that bears watching, it is not as important.  A…

…slowed from close to 10% at the start of the decade, to 3-4 percent in the middle of the decade, most people seemed pretty happy that inflation was back at…

…to the government by importers when goods enter the country, but this does not determine who ultimately bears the cost of these taxes on imports. There could be some combination…

…Omnipotence can break; and yet, my love of country comes over me like a strong wind, and bears me irresistibly on with all those chains, to the battlefield. “The memories…

…The public frequently sees legislative failure without understanding the mechanisms responsible for producing it. The media bears responsibility here as well. Political coverage often focuses heavily on personalities, strategy, polling,…