…By that I mean, the term fascism, fascist, etc. is becoming a popular term in people’s commentary, and is not a scary label when applied anymore. The not so supreme…

…have over $200 billion in revenue and more than 40,000 private label brands, and own and operate brands such as Safeway, Ralphs, Smith’s, Harris Teeter, Dillons, Fred Meyer, Vons, Kings,…

…and can skimp only so much on what they eat.  Ernie Tedeschi, formerly on the staff at President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, now director of economics at the Budget…

…ahead by just single digits.  Cruz, for his part, has been trying to pivot to the center too. In a Hail Mary attempt to label himself as bipartisan, he has…

…medical science has classified addiction as a chronic brain disease . . . Now, even some in the treatment and scientific communities have been rethinking the label of chronic brain disease. In…

…label to an outright ban. “One thing the EPA cannot do, however, in the face of this Court’s finding, is to ignore that risk,” wrote Chen, an Obama appointee. It’s…

…have written my last column for the New York Times, this newsletter is coming out of dormancy. It will be mostly economics-related, and I’ll try to stay away from pure political punditry,…

…that acknowledge complexity, tradeoffs, and competing values.  (The mainstream economists whose equivocation caused Harry Truman to ask for a one-handed economist were presumably not reasoning to ideologically pre-ordained conclusions.)  Libertarians…

…solve important economic problems.  Conceivably, Klein could be a “state capacity libertarian”.  There are problems with applying even this weaker definition of “libertarian” to Klein.  First, it is not clear…

…mad, label them terrorists. Seventy-five plus years now. There has never been a doubt what Israel wanted; it wanted it all. Not publicly. Let Moshe, Benji, … and the Likud…