Economy
Weekly Initial Claims Hit an Eleven-Week High but Remain Below the Pre-Pandemic Level
Initial claims for regular state unemployment insurance rose 19,000 for the week ending April 30, coming in at 200,000 (see...
Unit Auto Sales Rose in April, but Remain Low
Sales of light vehicles totaled 14.3 million at an annual rate in April, up from a 13.4 million pace in...
Services-Sector Survey Suggests Continued Price Pressures and Perhaps Some Weakening in Demand
The Institute for Supply Management’s composite services index decreased to 57.1 percent in April, falling 1.2 points from 58.3 percent...
The PFAS Packaging Predicament: McDonald’s Isn’t Loving It
The packaging of a number of popular food items has attracted the attention of Consumer Reports, given the presence of...
David Theroux: Gentleman, Scholar, Entrepreneur
To anyone who knew David Theroux, especially those who worked with him, his recent passing came as a shock. As...
AOL, Elon Musk, and Twitter
It was 1999 at Goldman Sachs, and a senior person in its private bank was asked what he was recommending...
Senioritis: It’s Not Just for Slackers Anymore
As a professor at an “early semester” university, where we graduate several weeks before many other schools, I sometimes notice...
Lisa Cook is Unqualified for the Federal Reserve Board
There was recently a heated debate in the United States Senate over the Federal Reserve Board. Dr. Lisa Cook, one...
Are EUAs Deregulation or Regulatory Capture?
Reprinted from the Independent Institute Nearly two years after Covid-19 first reached the US, Dr. Anthony Fauci indicated what many...
How can better climate data empower people to act?
By Wolfgang Fengler, Lukas VasholdAddressing climate change is quintessentially a collective action problem. My individual actions will not make a...
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