In WisconsinEye: “The Economy on the Campaign Trail”
Mike Knetter and I joined Lisa Pugh for a discussion yesterday about the economy and the election. Here is the video: Topics: ECONOMIC CONDITION Your […]
Month: September 2024
A Dilly in Philly: Kamala v. Trump Presidential Debate Live Blog
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What Happened to Equal Pay for Equal Work?
Thoughts on the US Open. Last weekend, I watched large portions of the US Open women’s tennis finals on Saturday and the men’s finals on […]
Bug Left Some Windows PCs Could Be Deployed Accidentally – Krebs on Security
Microsoft Corp. today released updates to fix at least 79 security vulnerabilities in it Windows operating systems and related software, including many vulnerabilities that arise […]
Betting on a Recession? In excess of… | Econbrowser
From Polymarket, accessed at 4pm CT today: The odds are very low…on the other hand, this is a bunch of non-US citizens betting on a […]
Basic State Finance Data
Many people, including uninformed voters, ignore the dire financial situation of the US government. The table below provides some numbers, extracted from the last US […]
US quantum computing lead over China is threatened by weakness in trade
However, as much as it is a competitive race, the rivalry between the US and China over quantum appears to be a battle between two […]
How does Wisconsin Employment work? | Econbrowser
July was down, and we won’t have August numbers until September 20th (probably a day earlier from DWD). Using formal non-farm payrolls across the state, […]
Ideally Not Applicable – Econlib
Orgel’s second law is “evolution is smarter than you.” By this, he meant that our inability to explain how this or that feature came about […]
Against the American economy fund
This is the subject of my latest column for Bloomberg, here is an excerpt: It is true that the expected rate of return of the […]