The latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the total number of job openings in the economy decreased to 10.458 million in November,…
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During the last week of December 2022, amid one of our nation’s worst snowstorms, Southwest Airlines canceled thousands of flights and sowed chaos and confusion among not only travelers but…
My recent column on the need to theorize carefully about comparative advantage provoked several people to share with me, by email, their objections to my case for a policy of…
For most of the last century, the “progressives” have been taking over the nation’s education system at every level. Pick any teacher, professor, or administrator and the chances are high…
Juan Ponce de Leon Statue at landing site, Melbourne Beach, Florida. Picture, if you will, a sixteenth-century conquistador in the New World. If you’re like most of us, the image…
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has revised up its projection for inflation. In the latest Summary of Economic Projections, the median FOMC member projects 3.1 percent inflation in 2023,…
The United States might be a democracy in form, but most policies are developed without even a semblance of public participation. For instance, policymakers overwhelmingly believe that the US should…
Thousands of passengers this holiday season bought plane tickets for short-hop flights, only to find their journeys had been converted to bus tickets overnight. Thousands more were stranded as major…
The turning of the New Year is a time for cheer and refreshed hope. Happy 2023! It is also a time for reflection, however, and we cannot escape the fact…
America is in the midst of an identity crisis, and it’s probably not the kind you’d think. Our nation is wrecked by an abysmal economy and unhappy people losing confidence…