The chance of a federal government shutdown increased dramatically and precipitously last week from 40 percent to 60 percent. It’s now more likely than not that a shutdown will result from the craziness going on in Washington. With the House already in recess until after Labor Day and the Senate about to leave town this week, all of the components that had led to my previous 40 percent estimate go
I believe there is a new liberal consensus on economic policy emerging and gathering strength. Department of Labor senior advisor Mary Beth Maxwell identifies it as well in a Medium post on “A ‘New’ Conventional Wisdom on Labor”. She quotes Paul Krugman, who provides what I think amounts to the basic case: “Low wages, he argues, are not the product of inscrutable market forces, but rather choices.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today issued America's latest jobs report covering August. And it's a disappointment. The economy created an additional 142,000 jobs last month. After six consecutive months over 200,000, most pundits expected the string to continue, including ADP which just yesterday said 204,000 jobs were created in August. One month variation does not change a trend Even t
More on how bad it is: An in-depth review of Windows 8 by Brian Boyko pans Windows 8 for nearly 24 minutes. How bad is it? Microsoft is not even mentioned among the four companies a Wall Street Journal team highlighted in an assessment of the great battles ahead in tech in 2013. According to the Journal, the firms to watch are Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon. Microsoft has reached an Orwelli
Manchester United lost the Premier League title on the last day of the season in heartbreaking fashion, when rival Manchester City scored a last-minute goal to defeat Queens Park Rangers and clinch its first title ever in May. Man City’s win prevented Manchester United from winning a second straight Premier League title--and record 20th overall--disappointing the team’s 659 million fans around the
Two years ago, my friend Matt Yglesias wrote this post about what he sarcastically dubbed "the inflation people," including some of my colleagues at the Cato Institute, who worried about the dangers of future inflation even as the economy was in the depths of a recession. I was irritated by the post and made a note to myself to check back in a few years and see how things turned out. Two years lat
On March 16 the Tea Party crowd showed up for yet another demonstration on Capitol Hill in Washington. Curious about the factual knowledge these people have regarding the issues they are protesting, my friend David Frum enlisted some interns to interview as many Tea Partyers as possible on a couple of basic questions. They got 57 responses--a pretty good-sized sample from a crowd that numbered bet
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