From his first great insight into racial discrimination, through subsequent insights into schooling, the family, crime, addictive behaviors and even suicide, Gary Becker re-unified the social sciences, with economics as the King, mathematics as the Queen and statistics as the Jack.
Chris Christie was and remains an elephant amongst a herd of donkeys.
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The media is giving mixed reports of Cardinal Dolan’s interview on Meet the Press with David Gregory. According to Fox News, the Catholics oppose Obamacare and, according to NBC News, the Catholics embrace it.
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Transparency, therefore, has little to do with being accountable to the political branches of government. It’s about allaying the concerns of the financial market in the face of accommodative monetary policy.
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The release of a supplemental poverty measure by the Census Bureau is being touted as the government is not doing enough to ameliorate poverty in the country… But the real problem is that the government is already doing too much.
With the collapse of the real estate bubble, many normally self-sufficient individuals and families found themselves not only out of work, but homeless. This caused a surge in the number of “tent cities” in the United States. To really help our fellow man, we should shift from enabling others to not work to insisting that they do.
The contributions of this year’s triplet of economists involve advances in the utilization of data, as well as the development of theory.
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Last time, it was the Platinum Bond. This time, the Premium Bond. What will they think of next?
The apparent divergence between Labor Productivity and earnings has been noticed by various progressive think tanks and is now making its way into public discourse. The divergence is easy to explain.
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Detroit is not some foreign country. It is part of our country. And, it is where we are all going unless we reject the culture of dependency and revive the culture of self-responsibility.
President Obama said, in his second inaugural address, “Together we determined that a modern economy requires railroads.” Actually, “we” determined that “a modern economy” requires canals, not railroads. We turned[…]
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