The value of a dollar is what it can buy you. And what a dollar can buy you in Minnesota depends on where you live in the state. According to…
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…
The Fed’s lobbying for the Page Amendment undermines its independence.
Letter to Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell outlines illegal grass roots lobbying Center of the American Experiment sent a letter to the head of the Federal Reserve Board in…
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…
Over the last few years, I have written a fair bit about the minimum wage hikes in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Simply put, all a minimum…
Rochester’s economy is heavily dependent on the healthcare sector. In 2019, Ron Wirtz wrote for the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: It’s hard to overstate the influence of Mayo and…
Last weekend, the Star Tribune reported: This was going to be the big comeback summer for Minnesota’s tourism business. Freed from the limits placed on them last year during the…
I have commented a few times recently on the puzzle of elevated numbers of unemployed Minnesotans at a time when there are large numbers of jobs available. This puzzle becomes…
Recently I wrote about the Panelház of Budapest, dwellings which were mass produced in parts by the communist government of Hungary and assembled onsite. I didn’t write about these grim…
A recent survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis suggests that even though the pandemic is coming to an end, childcare providers are still uncertain about their future. While…
Minnesotans remember Alan Page as one of the Purple People Eaters who helped lead the Vikings football team to four Super Bowls back in the 1970s. After his football career,…
The Minneapolis Fed recently tweeted that auto traffic volumes have largely recovered from the pandemic, but transit numbers have not. Transit ridership may recover a bit when office workers return…
“Minneapolis is a city steeped in a rich heritage of progressive politics.” So wrote a researcher in 1995. We saw a sign of that progress this week. Last August,…
Despite no proven correlation between spending and student achievement, Big Education relentlessly demands—and gets—more and more money.
One argument against the "one-size-fits-all" approach to public policy is the fact that it does not take into account differences in individual choices and risk, meaning suboptimal results for some…
Restaurant closings have piled up since the lockdown, and a Minneapolis Fed Survey suggests as much as 52% of restaurants could close if current restrictions remain in place for the…
We cannot expect the economy to return to normal while restrictions remain.
Lockdowns may have health benefits. These may, in turn, bring economic benefits. But it would be neglectful to make policy only by looking at the benefits of a measure. We…
The false narrative that inadequate funding is the root of our education problems paints Minnesota as a state allergic to accountability.
What if I told you everything in the conventional narrative about Minnesota’s education system is believed by facts that point to a different conclusion from what we’ve been told?
Aspirational Page-Kashkari constitutional amendment will fail.
This article was originally published by the Star Tribune. Minnesota schools, like schools across the nation, have been striving for decades to shrink the stubborn racial learning gap. The frustration…
To boost GDP per capita as well as total GDP, immigrants need to be more likely to be employed than workers already resident and/or more skilled.