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Build it anyway, and some of them may come

…sales tax revenue, not by economic growth, and not by outside spending. When the city subsidizes hockey, it reduces its ability to pay for public safety officials, public transportation, and…

Public and Private Investment

One not particularly cute graph; no analysis, explanation, nor editorializing. GDPI is gross domestic private investment. NDGIC96 is Real Federal Nondefense Gross Investment. SLINVC96 is Real State & Local Government…

Fed’s Once-Secret Data Released to Public

Bloomberg notes: Fed’s Once-Secret Data Released to Public By editor Bloomberg News today released spreadsheets showing daily borrowing totals for 407 banks and companies that tapped Federal Reserve emergency programs…

Coming Boomer pension cuts

public alarm over the state of public pensions, it would be an analysis issued by the Pew Center on the States last February. The study, whose findings were reported by…