Vox has a fascinating tool to assess what the four major candidates' tax plans will mean for your household. You can find it here . The ...

Terrorism in Europe represents progress. Before you accuse me of insanity or a lack of empathy, give me a few sentences to make my argumen...

It's hard to imagine what more Obama could have done to win over social conservatives than to have chosen a Supreme Court nominee from...

I rode home from San Francisco last week beside a guy who had been at a web developer conference. He told me that one thing that has changed...

What should we do about working class resentment of government programs? Be fair. We should invest as much in the careers of the working cla...

Economists argue a lot but rarely about the benefits of free trade. Here's a poll result that is typical of economists' opinions ab...

Through the 12th of February, NASDAQ had fallen roughly 13%. It was a miserable start to the year. On the 15th of February, after the mark...

This week at the client site, I met a guy who works remotely from the UK. We chatted a little. Later, I was waiting for him to move so I c...

Donald claimed that he did great in Super Tuesday. "Record turnouts," he claimed. "It's a movement," he assured us. ...

Donald and Hillary have emerged as the clear front-runners. It's curious that the GOP establishment has had such a visceral reaction...

To succinctly recap yesterday's blog post .... The media is largely baffled by Trump's popularity. What if the media created him...

Clay Shirky offered a fairly scathing critique of the mainstream media in a series of tweets last night. You can find his twitter feed here ...

Jeb's failure and Donald's rise signals real hope for the Republican Party. And this is coming from a guy who thinks that Donald Tru...

Here are some numbers that help to tell the story of today's economy and what that suggests about whether the recent fall in stock price...

"I'm a nice guy," Trumps continually assures us."Everybody likes me," Donald likes to say. I'm not so sure that...

Perhaps it is just because it is an election season, but it is popular to bemoan the state of the world. ISIS and a flood of refugees from t...

Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are doing surprisingly well in this presidential campaign. It would have taken some imagination to predict t...

Here is some interesting data that shows job creation by administration with public sector (government) jobs broken out in orange from the p...

For the first time in 95 months, the unemployment rate has dropped below 5%, which is great. In this decade, we've had a lot of misery ...

While the stock market continues to worsen, the labor market continues to improve. But that is not the most curious thing about it. U...