In August of 1833 the British passed legislation abolishing slavery within the British Empire and putting more than 800,000 enslaved…
John Arnold points us to this table on new apartments and pointedly notes that the population of LA (18.5 m)…
James Heckman and Sadegh Eshaghnia have launched a broadside in the WSJ against the Chetty-Hendren paper The Impacts of Neighborhoods…
Trump has put tariffs on the economics agenda in a way that hasn’t been true for decades. As a new…
In my post How High Government Pay Wastes Talent and Drains Productivity I pointed to evidence that high government compensation…
Answer: America won. Every generation launches a new competitor to America and the people who don’t like capitalism and America’s…
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Ballard (Amazon Prime) — I liked Bosch, so I had high hopes for this spinoff. The core premise—a team of…
Quanta Magazine has a good piece on a 17-year-old student who disproved a long-standing conjecture in harmonic analysis: Yet a paper…
From Adam Ozimek: The economic value of the cars being made has climbed substantially through the years. As a result,…