Author: Jim

What has been driving inflation? Economists’ thinking may have changed

a profit-price spiral

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1175487806

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/15/college-student-enrollment-decline-economics/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/24/higher-education-enrollment-conservatives/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/19/declining-college-enrollment-value/

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Why Laws Meant to Create Jobs Can Be So Destructive for Our Cities

How laws meant to inspire building things may incite destructive races to the bottom in places across the country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/opinion/chips-incentives-biden.html?smid=em-share

Coastal Cities Priced Out Low-Wage Workers. Now College Graduates Are Leaving, Too.

Educated workers are increasingly migrating away from the country’s most expensive major metros — and have been since before the pandemic.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/15/upshot/migrations-college-super-cities.html?smid=em-share

Wonking Out: Attack of the Pharma Phantoms

Tax avoidance is a drug on the market.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/opinion/pharma-tax-avoidance-trump.html?smid=em-share

Elon Musk Makes Sense. Yes, Really.

Elon Musk’s seemingly erratic behavior is rational if one looks at the true source of his wealth.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/opinion/elon-musk-twitter-tesla.html?smid=em-share

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/12/novelists-publishers-restrictions-race-gender-ethnicity/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/12/esg-house-republicans-james-comer-capitalism/