Power & Market

To date, no major political party in the United States has issued a coherent, principled policy on immigration.

The projections, like the methodology itself, are prone to bias, error, and fallacious reasoning, ultimately amounting to nothing more than guesses. Yet it’s believed this is all part of the planning process.

Currently, E-Verify is only used to assure a job applicant is a citizen or legal resident. However, its use could be expanded to advancing other purposes, such as ensuring a potential new hire has taken all the recommended vaccines.

The current debate on whether schools should be reopened or not is not just a debate on the safety of children.

The Fed says it will keep the easy money flowing until "full employment" is achieved. And what is full employment? The Fed will decide! 

Last week, Senator Chuck Schumer reassured us eight times that “help is on the way.” Madame Vice-President and Speaker Nancy Pelosi both reiterated

In the wake of the brutal murder of Sarah Everard, Boris Johnson’s government has fallen into the twin perils of modern conservatism in relation to

"We’re each supposed to have our rights, unalienable rights…unalienable even by a majority."

The relative importance of a category of goods in calculating prices is thoroughly arbitrary. Since it’s impossible to credibly quantify the level of importance of a good in even one person’s life, it’s absurd this is done for the entire country.

Derek Neal in "Why Has Black-White Skill Convergence Stopped" suggests that the black-white skill gap can be attributed to family patterns that deter investment in human capital.