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April 24, 2025
AI “Slop” Comes for Job Interviews
…really are. Now, AI is making itself felt in job interviews. New tools, including this one, are on the market to help interviewees perform better in remote interview settings. The basic…
April 24, 2025
In Opposing Last Month’s Continuing Resolution, Nearly All Democrats Voted to Shut Down Welfare Checks, Too
…the legislation. It also marked a rare example of most Democrats’ voting to shut down funding for welfare benefits, which they otherwise regularly support extending at levels set in the…
April 24, 2025
Not Local Enough: The Montgomery County Public Schools Case
…As Charles Tiebout observed in his classic 1956 essay, A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures, municipalities compete for residents based on the market basket of public goods they offer. There is…
April 21, 2025
The City That’s Always Working
…is to know about businesses, industry sectors, and market conditions. This closes the knowledge gap within companies and reduces “latency,” the difference between responding to customer inquiries and interests and…
April 15, 2025
Is There Really Pent-Up Demand for Ten Times the Manufacturing Jobs We Have?
…fully 25% of poll respondents say they’d prefer a factory job to their current job, that suggests massive potential unmet by the current labor market.” However, there’s a problem here….
April 8, 2025
Public Support of Health Insurance Enrollment
…highest payoff reform would lower prices for high-volume medical services through a structured market and incentives for patients to migrate toward the most efficient providers. This reform would lower premiums in…
April 8, 2025
Could A Higher Endowment Tax Pressure Elite Schools To Expand?
…schools subject to the tax fluctuates from year to year due to changes in the market value of endowments and how the IRS counts students, the list is illustrative of the sorts of…
April 4, 2025
President Trump’s Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It’s Also Based on an Error.
…has been dramatic, with the stock market losing nine percent of its value (based on the S&P 500 index at the time of writing) and forecasted probabilities of a recession…
April 3, 2025
Trump’s Tariffs Are a Historic Tax Hike
…must be saving some of its output and income. So, some of the output of foreign nations flows into US markets. Foreign direct and portfolio investments are votes of confidence…
March 31, 2025
Reimagining Federal Education R&D: DARPA for Education
Earlier in my professional life, I was the head of the political science department at Stony Brook University. When the chairs of the arts and science met, someone from the…