Student Loan Repayment Is Not a Big Deal
Biden’s Student Loan Repayment Plans Are Generous, but Most Borrowers Are Unaware of Their Options There have been numerous stories in the media about how the... Read more.
Putting Ukraine Spending in Context
The United States support of Ukraine, following the invasion by Russia, has featured prominently in the news in recent days as Republicans in Congress have made... Read more.
Regulators Never Looked at Silicon Valley Bank’s Key Vulnerability
Those Smart New Rules to Spot Troubled Banks — Oops! Last week a Wall Street Journal column claimed that the Federal Reserve Board’s stress tests would... Read more.
Donald Trump To Blame For SVB Bank Failure
Trump Gave Mid-size Banks and Big Depositors a Free Lunch Two key points about the decision to guarantee all the deposits at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB): It was a... Read more.
Big Pharma’s Patent Monopolies and Corruption Are Costing Americans Big Dollars
Broken System Allows Pharmaceutical Companies To Sell Drugs at Prices That Are Typically Several Thousand Percent Above Their Free Market Price Outlawing items ... Read more.
American Economy Continues Growing
The Big Risk is the Federal Reserve Going Too Far While the news media keep touting the prospects for a recession, it is difficult to see why there would be o... Read more.
How to Decimate the Corporate Tax-Avoidance Industry
A Simple Shift in What's Taxed Would Raise More Money... Read more.
Our Economy Continues to Grow Quite Nicely the Data Show
An Economist Explains Why The 1.4% GDP Decline Is Misleading Many people were struck by the 1.4% drop in Gross Domestic Product or GDP in the first quarter of 2... Read more.
If Wage Growth Is Driving Inflation, Why Is Workers’ Share of Income Falling?
This Isn’t — and Can’t Be — 1970s style inflation A popular line on our recent surge of inflation is that an over-tight labor market has led to ... Read more.
Let’s Get Rid of Patent Monopolies Before the Next Pandemic
Profits Before Saving Lives Is Policy for Both Big Pharma and Politicians... Read more.