Although the Republican tax plan has been - and still is - evolving it has recently included changes that would tax innovation in two forms....

As I write this, Twitter is a twitter about sex. At least for the accounts I follow, that's unusual. The two big stories are Roy Moore...

In October, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report forecasting some key numbers for the next decade. You can find it here . Here...

The U.S. got its first Federal Reserve Chair in 1914. 100 years later the first woman was appointed to Chair the Fed. Now, after she has ser...

Freud's Couch Was Sort of a Bed About a century ago two competing models for modern media emerged in the U.S. and Germany. Using wha...

In the 2016 election, bots were busily posting and reposting weird memes to people who confused cynicism with sophistication, people who fou...

An interesting study here depicts how little overlap there is in voting in Congress compared to what it was decades ago. As you can see...

"Have you ever noticed that anybody  driving slower  than you is an  idiot , and anyone going  faster  than you is a maniac?" -  G...

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...