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The NY Times has published an impressive piece by Thomas Edsall about consumption and income inequality. If you read this long piece, I have the feeling that most of the RBC community will embrace David Autor’s points. If you agree...
Last month, in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting, I argued that while permissive gun laws and mental health were contributing factors in American gun violence, the real cause of this problem probably had a lot more to do...
Ray Boshara, a senior adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, just showed this alarming slide to a group at the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-square/2012/09/i_had_to_be_cynical040004.php" target="_blank">Assets Learning Conference here in Washington, where a big group of...
New from the Journal of Economic Perspectives: “Why Is the Teen Birth Rate in the United States So High and Why Does It Matter?” (ungated pdf) by Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine: Why is the rate of teen...
The great issue of our time is the growing inequality of wealth and income. Here’s the key passage from Barack Obama’s Osawatomie speech: In the last few decades, the average income of the top 1 percent has gone up by...