Feb 25, 2021
The search for systemic racism continues. Anti-racist academics and progressive politicians know it exists because the black/white outcome gap in areas such as housing, health care, employment and criminal justice proves it exists. It is just that it is hard to find because, as Stokely Carmichael said, of its less...
Feb 12, 2021
A Gallup poll conducted in February 2020, well before the presidential elections, that 59% of the respondents said they did not trust US elections. If people who lose an election believe the process was trustworthy, they will regroup and try to a new strategy to woo voters. But if they believe they were cheated,...
Feb 10, 2021
The Congressional Budget Office has come out with a study of a bill in Congress to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour that forecasts some good outcomes (reduced poverty) and some bad outcomes (increased unemployment). But forecasts are usually very inaccurate and when governments try to force free markets to generate...
Feb 3, 2021
Three old black men, Walter Williams, Bob Woodson and Thomas Sowell, have a different perspective about the problems afflicting the black community than do many modern black economists that cite systemic racism and white oppression as the cause of what is holding the black community down. But these old men grew up...