Tomorrow’s Economic Headlines Today
This here story is the economic sequence leading up to the headlines you will be reading in a few weeks/months
Category: Economics
Knowing Which Screws to Turn: Job Skills For The Life You Want
The division of responsibilities and job skills that are required for a job will always determine your work life and your pay
Hayek II!
Hayek argued consistently on “social” being a bad adjective, making whatever word that follows the opposite of what that word means by itself
Child Tax Credit Checks Start To Go Out
The monthly “Child Tax Credit” payments plan from the March stimulus package are going out to parents this week.
President Biden’s Executive Order on Economic Competition: Read It For Yourself
President Biden’s Executive Order signed on Friday includes 70 provisions on everything from agriculture to net neutrality.
Economic Lesson VI: Investment
You think an idea is good? Make it a reality. Will it make a good return on investment or ROI? The investor sure hopes so!
4th of July and The Rising Cost of Celebrating Freedom
Folks travelling for the long 4th of July weekend are feeling more than a little financial pinch.
Post-Pandemic Wasteland
The pandemic response has created a new post-pandemic world with fewer personal services, amenities and changed priorities for businesses
Hayek, In Practice
The curious task is the job of people like Hayek – F.A., not Selma – to explain the limits of fiscal and monetary policy to affect behavior
Workers Leaving Retail Jobs in Record Numbers
A twist on the “we can’t hire anyone” headlines: Some workers are not moving out of the job market, but up and out of retail jobs.
The Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax Would be a Tax from Hell
The Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax concept seems designed to alienate virtually every side of the political spectrum. So how would it work?
Economic Lesson V: Scarcity
Those who pretend scarcity doesn’t exist are playing you. Politicians utilize this one, but academics and journalists do it often as well.
O Inflation, Where Art Thou?
Queue panic, articles and televised pundits loudly banging the inflation worries drum. However, there are reasons to not worry (right now)
Pomylka By the Lake: Cleveland Has a Ukrainian Oligarch Problem
Cleveland, of course, is not alone in serving as a destination for money laundered by Ukrainian oligarchs. But what to do about it?
What is Infrastructure? The Colonial Pipeline Cyber Attack Tells Us
This is what true national infrastructure looks like. This is not the poll-tested, happy face definition of infrastructure.
Inflation Concerns Rising With Goods and Services Prices
Instead of prognostication, perhaps a review of examples in US history of inflation would be a more useful tool going forward.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Vs Canada over Enbridge’s Line 5
A 4.5 mile stretch of Line 5 under the Great Lakes is at the center of a legal fight with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
Anti-Capitalism Never Made Much Sense
I find it weird that anti-capitalists focus on companies like Disney, Microsoft, and Amazon and not the multinational conglomerates.
What Happens When A Skill Becomes Obsolete?
What happens when a skill dies? The key thing to me is to note that skills don’t die suddenly. There is an inflection point that signals the coming end.
Lazy Man’s Load: Credentialing and Education That Never Fails
Many educational institutions build their programs directly on the back of industry credentialing organizations.
