The Family Options Experiment: Reducing Homelessness with Long-Term Rent Subsidies
What policy steps might offer at least a medium-term solution for homelessness affecting families with children? The Family Options Study is...
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Thursday, November 30, 2017
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
What's Next for Mass Transit?
For a deeply skeptical take on the future of rail-based mass transit, I recommend "The Coming Transit Apocalypse," by Randal O’Too...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Asset Prices and the Real Economy
Back in the late 1990s there was a mini-argument about whether something should be done about the run-up in the stock market. As a reminder,...
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Monday, November 27, 2017
Progressive Redistribution: What's Happened? What's Next?
Is the rise in economic inequality around the world during the last few decades mainly a matter of economic forces that have affected wages,...
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Friday, November 24, 2017
The Amazon Effect
One of the ongoing puzzles of the US economy in recent decades is why inflation has stayed so low. Even outgoing Fed Chair Janet Yellen has ...
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Thursday, November 23, 2017
The Origins of Thanksgiving as an Official Holiday
Thanksgiving is a day for a traditional menu, and I take a holiday by reprinting this annual column on the origins of the day: The first pre...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2017
An Economist Chews over Thanksgiving
As Thanksgiving preparations arrive, I naturally find my thoughts veering to the evolution of demand for turkey, technological change in tur...
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The Dominance of Peoria in the Processed Pumpkin Market
As I prepare for a season of pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread (made with cornmeal and pecans), pumpkin soup (especially nice wish a decent champag...
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Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Will Artificial Intelligence Recharge Economic Growth?
There may be no more important question for the future of the US economy than whether the ongoing advances in information technology and art...
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Monday, November 20, 2017
Why Has Life Insurance Ownership Declined?
Back in the first half of the 19th century, life insurance was unpopular in the US because it was broadly considered to be a form of betting...
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Friday, November 17, 2017
Brexit: Still a Process, Not Yet a Destination
I happened to be in the United Kingdom on a long-planned family vacation on June 23, 2016, when the Brexit vote took place. At the time, I o...
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Thursday, November 16, 2017
US Wages: The Short-Term Mystery Resolved
The Great Recession ended more than eight years ago, in June 2009 . The US unemployment rate declined slowly after that, but i t has now bee...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Rethinking Development: Larry Summers
Larry Summers delivered a speech on the subject of "Rethinking Global Development Policy for the 21st Century " at the Center for...
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Here's a slightly obscure passage that made me cackle. Among the ancient Greek philosophers, the virtues were considered to be philosoph...
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The interaction of a bubble in real estate prices with the banking and financial sector drove the US economy into the Great Recession. For a... -
On November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a law establishing a federal holiday for the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., to be c...
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