Gov. Walz is notoriously thin-skinned. At an appearance in Iowa last week, he said: “There is kind of an unwritten rule when we are dealing with things not to criticize…
Back in May, Reuters ran an article asking: “Why is UK inflation so high and how do other countries compare?” The authors offered various possible explanations for high inflation in…
Last week I wrote about new data that showed that businesses are fleeing downtown Minneapolis. Twin Cities Business reported: With over 21.2 million square feet of vacant office space in the…
Minnesota’s media is in celebratory mood: Star Tribune: Minnesota has finally recovered all private sector jobs lost in pandemic KTTC: DEED: Minnesota private job sector recovers from pandemic job loss,…
“What I shall argue”, writes Lorenzo Forni in The Magic Money Tree, “is that the main principles of economics remain unchanged; it is only the circumstances in which they operate…
While writing a recent post about how Minnesota’s economic growth is below average, I was struck by the diverging post-COVID-19 growth rates of our neighbors. As Figure 1 shows, from…
In an article summarizing the economic policies of Tim Walz and Scott Jensen — candidates in tomorrow’s gubernatorial election — Dave Orrick writes for the Pioneer Press: The Federal Reserve…
Last week I submitted an op-ed to two of the state’s major opinion platforms correcting some of the egregiously false statements made recently about Minnesota’s economy. Both declined to run…
Last week I submitted an op-ed to two of the state’s major opinion platforms correcting some of the egregiously false statements made recently about Minnesota’s economy. Both declined to run…
I submitted an op-ed to two of the state’s major opinion platforms last week correcting some of the egregiously false statements made recently about Minnesota’s economy. Both declined to run…
In our new report ‘The Cost of Lockdowns and Shutdowns: Part I: Counting the economic costs of government policy responses to COVID-19‘, my colleague Martha Njolomole and I write: In…
In March 2020, COVID-19 hit Minnesota. State and local governments enacted several measures intended to slow the spread of the virus, chief among these being “lockdowns” of individuals and shutdowns…
A couple of weeks ago, I saw a post in a Facebook group for residents of my neighborhood where a desperate mother was asking if anyone knew a store that…
Shortly after moving to Minnesota in 2017, my wife and I went to see a Saint Paul Saints game. Arriving early, we went for a walk around Lowertown. We loved…
Yesterday, I wrote about employment growth in Minnesota since the trough of the COVID-19 recession in April 2020. Despite a period of below average employment growth, we still have a…
Gov. Walz gave his state of the state address Sunday night and in it, noted that, Nationally, we have the fifth lowest unemployment rate among states, the third highest job…