Economy A Safety Net Full of Holes by August 31, 2026 by August 31, 2026 Unemployment Insurance in the Wake of 2020 and the Path to Reform Executive Summary The following paper examines unemployment insurance… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Why Detroit Failed and Pittsburgh Recovered by August 31, 2026 by August 31, 2026 Protectionism, Economic Monoculture, and the Real Lessons of the Rust Belt Executive Summary In 1950, Detroit and Pittsburgh were among… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Sound Money, Explained by August 31, 2026 by August 31, 2026 1. Introduction: Why Sound Money Matters Money is foundational to commerce and plays a central role in everyday life. We… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Bessent vs. Druckenmiller: Bond Vigilantes versus Bond Bureaucrats by August 28, 2026 by August 28, 2026 The dispute between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Stanley Druckenmiller is more important than a technical disagreement over Treasury buybacks.… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Housing Scapegoats Are Abundant. Starter Homes Are Scarce. by August 28, 2026 by August 28, 2026 On July 11, Congress passed the Twenty-First Century ROAD to Housing Act, a rare display of bipartisan action aimed at… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Put Money on It? The Social Value of Prediction Markets by August 28, 2026 by August 28, 2026 Many years ago I came into the habit of offering (and taking) bets on absolutely everything. Conversationally, it could be… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy When Paris Went Hungry Under Government Food Controls by August 28, 2026 by August 28, 2026 How does Paris get fed? Frédéric Bastiat famously explained in Economic Sophisms (1845) how market exchange reliably provisioned the (then)… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy America Can’t Revive Manufacturing by Shunning Robots by August 28, 2026 by August 28, 2026 A few months ago, I was privileged to tour the Michigan steel mill where my daughter works. A month or… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Univ. of Michigan’s Hidden Grades Will Backfire on Students by August 28, 2026 by August 28, 2026 Starting in fall 2027, the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the largest of its 19… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy The Nixon Shock 55 Years Later: Three Impossible Promises by August 28, 2026 by August 28, 2026 Economist Thomas Sowell once quipped, “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
