Some facts: Today Trump's campaign manager was indicted and a campaign adviser to Trump plead guilty to lying to the FBI about a conta...

Maybe I'm simple minded but I don't think that policy has to be terribly complex.   A great test of your economic policy is how ea...

Focusing on individual events can distract us from the systems that make those events more probable. In the 1980s, the Japanese were tak...

Per my survey (which likely differs from what you would glean from the general population), people think that households with income of abou...

Here is my very first podcast: Social Invention, Progress & Trump , one in a series of Fourth Economy podcasts. "History consi...

13 October, our Social Security Administration released data on last year's wage earners . An income of $95,000 put you in the top 1...

Watch for legislation that cuts capital gains tax. Once that happens, people with equities will be able to sell with lower tax penalty. If y...

We have data on monthly unemployment rates in the US from January 1948 - shortly after World War 2 - through September of 2017. During that ...

Great things happened to the finances of American households between 2013 and 2016. Given it is great news, it didn't get reported. So, ...

It is doubtful that any man has more fiercely craved attention than does Donald Trump. Throughout 2016, his ability to attract and hold our ...

Budgets are the clearest expression of values. Right now they are negotiated slowly and if a vote comes down to just one or two senators, sa...

It's not enough that Trump has no interest in policy and experience in governance. Today with Tom Price's resignation we're remi...

Because Americans couldn't look away from Trump, they now can't look away from Trump. A question worth asking is What would American...

Yesterday the Census Bureau released new data on household income from 2016. There are a variety of interesting things to come out of that ...

Kim Jong-un of North Korea is not giving up his nuclear arms. The US demanded that Libya's Gaddafi and Iraq's Hussein give up or sto...

I harp on the prospect of a trade war for a host of reasons. For one thing, like the invasion of Iraq or the deregulation of financial ma...

About 90% of men had a job in 1900. (The Labor Force Participation Rate, or LFPR is the measure of this.) The workweek was 60 hours. Near...

Trump this week: "Bring me tariffs! I want tariffs!" Me: Somebody has got to stop that kid. He's driving so recklessly that ...

I've gone to a few political rallies and inevitably find them dismaying. There are a variety of reasons for this but a couple of obvious...

We fought the British. We fought the Mexicans. We fought the Japanese. We fought the Vietnamese. When those battles were over there were sti...