New Orleans Inflation is starting to edge forward in the United States. For the White House, that will mean finger pointing and bully pulpit time once again, as Trump tries to divert attention away from his on-again-off-again tariff tantrums. In some fever dream, he thinks he can blame it on the head of …
Category: Economics
The Informal Shadow Economy
Toronto Many politicians and economists like to pretend when they are measuring labor production, wage rates, and GDP that the numbers tell it all. Others with feet more firmly planted on the ground know better and have argued for a different measure that values ALL work, not just the work that’s easy to count. …
Musk and Billionaire Ironies of DEI
Pearl River Most of us don’t recognize any fine line between irony and flat-out hypocrisy, but this attack on the largely strawman issue of diversity, equity, and inclusion or DEI, makes it hard to avoid seeing it. Readers and listeners may be sick and tired of hearing about this in recent days, but we …