Category: Economics
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Critical Evaluation: Economic Claims About Mass Deportation and Their Impact on Food Prices, Healthcare, Housing, and Property Taxes
A recent social media image claims that mass deportation of undocumented immigrants would increase strawberry prices while decreasing healthcare, housing, and property tax costs. This analysis examines each claim against peer-reviewed research, government data, and economic analyses to evaluate their accuracy. The evidence reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of how immigrant labor and tax contributions function…
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Understanding the September 2025 Jobs Report
The combination of modest job creation, rising unemployment, downward revisions to prior months, and ongoing federal job cuts suggests an economy that’s cooling. Whether this represents a healthy normalization after the post-pandemic surge or the early signs of more serious weakness is the crucial question—and one this single report can’t definitively answer.
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Get Your 50-Year Mortgage Here
President Donald J. Trump’s administration recently floated the 50-year mortgage as something that would help make homes more affordable.
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The $80 Billion Nuclear Bet: Understanding the Trump Administration’s Westinghouse Deal
The core question is not whether nuclear power has technical merit. Rather, it’s whether this particular arrangement represents sound policy or a costly mistake that mixes industrial policy with crony capitalism. Is this another step towards Trump’s version of state capitalism, or even outright socialism?
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Analysis of Economists’ Amicus Brief Challenging Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs
Analysis of an amicus curiae brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by prominent professional economists, including several Nobel Prize winners and former government officials. There are two consolidated cases before the U.S. Supreme Court: No. 24-1287: Learning Resources, Inc., et al. v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. and No.…
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ACA Premium Tax Credits in States
This scatter plot reveals a fascinating and counterintuitive relationship between political preferences and healthcare policy usage across American states.
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White House: BLS Has Lengthy History of Inaccuracies, Incompetence
This White House article presents a highly critical assessment of the Bureau of Labor Statistics under the previous administration. It accurately identifies notable BLS revisions, a significant benchmark adjustment, and procedural lapses in August 2024. However, its framing of these events as evidence of systemic incompetence does not fully account for the agency’s established revision…
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Gross Domestic Product per Person in States
This scatter plot reveals a fascinating relationship between political preferences and economic prosperity across US states.
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Gross Domestic Product in Counties
This scatter plot reveals a fascinating relationship between economic output and voting patterns at the county level in the United States.
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Trump’s Fed Rate Push Faces Economic Reality
President Trump’s aggressive campaign for Federal Reserve interest rate cuts in 2025 represents an unprecedented assault on central bank independence.
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The Employment and Wage Effects of Trump’s Steel Tariffs
Research on the Trump administration’s 2018-2020 steel tariffs reveals significant negative net employment effects despite modest gains in steel production jobs. While steel workers experienced some wage increases, the broader economic impact included substantial job losses in steel-using industries and higher costs for consumers.
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Inflation and Consumer Price Index, January 2025
Looking at inflation calculations in a different way.