After a multi-year revision process, the Minnesota Department of Education’s new K-12 social studies standards have been approved and will now go to district and charter schools for implementation into…
“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…
Starting today, businesses in Minnesota will start paying higher Unemployment Insurance taxes after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on replenishing the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Trust Fund. As the Minnesota…
Inflation is running at its fastest rate, year over year, since June 1982. Generally, people see this in the form of rising prices. But that is only part of the…
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that inflation rose by 7.0 percent in the year to November. This is the fastest annual rate of increase since June 1982. Stripping…
Minnesota’s Walter Mondale famously failed to resurrect Hubert Humphrey’s liberal coalition, but also took the first, faltering steps toward a new progressive politics that appealed to younger, educated, middle-class voters.
New research led by the University of Chicago shows huge promise to defeating global hunger by using genetic modification of crops to increase food production by 50 percent and make…
PragerU — a leading non-profit media company widely known for its videos on political, economic and philosophical topics — has launched PragerU Resources for Educators & Parents (PREP) to equip…
The video of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis on Memorial Day is sickening. There is no way that arresting a man for an alleged minor infraction should involve a police…
The Minnesota Distiller’s Guild continues their years-long struggle for deregulation in Minnesota with the introduction of their newest bill, H.F. 3246, to the state legislature. The bill, which was introduced…
I have recently joined the Center of the American Experiment as an economist to contribute to the Center’s research and analysis of Minnesota’s economy as well as various policy issues.…
Beneath the surface Minnesota's economy shows inherent weakness.
New data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows that Minnesota’s economy was only the 36th fastest growing in the United States in the first quarter of 2019. While the…
(St. Paul, MN) – John Phelan, Economist at Center of the American Experiment, released the following statement in response to the two-year budget deal announced by Gov. Walz and legislative leaders: “Minnesotans spoke out…
The tax increases proposed by the House DFL will hit every Minnesotan, young and old, at every income level. We’ll pay more in gas taxes, tab fees, income taxes, capital…
In their write up of our new report The State of Minnesota’s Economy: 2018, the Pioneer Press gets the distinction between per capita and per worker numbers badly wrong.
The economy we should want for Minnesota should be one of high investment driving rising wages. It is the economic model Germany had so much success with in the post-war…
A legally mandated $15 dollar minimum wage is a harmful solution to what is increasingly a non-problem as wages rise in Minnesota.
An unsigned excerpt from an editorial in a college newspaper, the Wellesley News, was featured in The Wall Street Journal. It demonstrates that these college students have learned all too…
CAE’s Young Leadership Council (YLC) was established to attract rising stars to the world of public policy.