My Weekly Reading for April 14, 2024
[ad_1] Here are some highlights of my weekly reading for the week just passed. by Kyle D. Fee and Brian A. Mikelbank, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Community Development Reports, February 23, 2o24. Excerpt: Based on our analysis, over 830,000 Ohioans could be at risk of leaving the labor force if only half of drivers […]
My Weekly Reading for March 31, 2024
[ad_1] By Ronald Bailey, Reason, April 2024. Excerpt: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that massively screwed up COVID-19 testing now wants to apply its vast bureaucratic acumen to all other laboratory developed tests (LDTs). By insisting on its recondite approval procedures, the FDA at the beginning of the pandemic stymied the rollout of COVID-19 tests developed […]
Here’s what to expect from a key inflation reading
[ad_1] Shoppers are seen in a Kroger supermarket in Atlanta on Oct. 14, 2022. Elijah Nouvelage | AFP | Getty Images Rising gasoline prices likely put a floor under inflation in February, potentially reinforcing the Federal Reserve’s decision to take a go-slow approach with interest rate reductions. Economists expect that prices across a broad spectrum […]
My Weekly Reading and Viewing for February 18, 2024
[ad_1] By Eric Boehm, Reason, February 16, 2024 Excerpt: If there is the thinnest bit of a silver lining to be found in the untimely demise of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who reportedly died this week in prison, perhaps it is this: It is a well-timed reminder of how much Russia sucks. Most […]
My Weekly Reading and Viewing for February 4, 2024
[ad_1] Two reading highlights and one viewing highlight. The 2 Reasons California’s YIMBY Reforms Are Failing by Christian Britschgi, Reason, January 30, 2024. Excerpt: So, what’s going on? Why haven’t other YIMBY housing laws kicked off a boom in new duplexes and transit-adjacent apartments as they have with ADUs? I’d boil it down to […]
My Weekly Reading, January 28, 2024
[ad_1] Aaron Brown, Reason, January 23, 2024 Excerpt: Desmond gets more specific about what doesn’t cause poverty. He dismisses cultural explanations, such as single-parent households and declining marriage rates. He quickly dismisses the idea that the welfare state traps people in cycles of dependency, claiming that these arguments rely on anecdotal evidence, even though there’s […]
My Weekly Reading – Econlib
[ad_1] Some highlights of my weekly reading. Ilya Somin, “Canadian Immigration Officials Block Citizenship Grant for Russian Immigrant Because She Was Convicted of the ‘Crime’ of Speaking Out Against Russia’s War of Ukraine,” Reason, Volokh Conspiracy, January 5, 2024. Excerpt from the article quoted by Somin: Kartasheva, 30, learned via her family that in late […]
Our Virtual Reading Group on Bruno Leoni
[ad_1] During the month of February, I’ll have the pleasure to coordinate a Virtual Reading Group on Bruno Leoni’s Freedom and the Law. I will write some rather impressionistic blog posts on the book, which I have read and read again over the years. Freedom and the Law is a short work, which emerged out […]