Category: Economics
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In search of a level playing field
A national survey finds that small business leaders overwhelmingly believe that state economic development incentives favor big businesses, that states are overspending on large individual deals, and that state incentive programs are not effectively meeting the needs of small businesses seeking to grow.
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James Chung in Wichita, September 23, 2015
James Chung in Wichita, September 23, 2015.
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Kansas private nonfarm employment by county
An interactive visualization of private nonfarm employment in Kansas, for each county.
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Introduction to Austrian Economics
“For Austrians, on the other hand, man is a purposeful being. … He has spirit and will.” The author of these remarks, Dr. Richard Ebeling, delivered a lecture on Austrian Economics to an audience in Wichita.
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Austrian economics to be explained
A breakfast meeting in Wichita features Richard M. Ebeling, Ph.D. speaking on Austrian Economics.
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Quarterly gross domestic product by state
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is releasing prototype quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) by state statistics for 2005–2014. Here is an interactive visualization.
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Some good news on federal spending
According to Dan Mitchell, “First, we made a lot of fiscal progress between 2009 and 2014 because various battles over debt limits, shutdowns, and sequestration actually did result in real spending discipline.” Couple that with some (slow) growth in the economy, and as a result, federal spending as a percentage of GDP has declined.
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Michael Tanner: Going for Broke: Deficits, Debt and the Entitlement Crisis
Cato Institute Senior Fellow Michael Tanner speaks about his new book, “Going for Broke: Deficits, Debt and the Entitlement Crisis,” at a luncheon of the Wichita Pachyderm Club, July 31, 2014.
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Friedman: The fallacy of the welfare state
A simple classification of government spending shows why the process leads to undesirable results, explain Milton and Rose Friedman.
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Airport statistics
Updated charts of flights and passengers for Wichita and the U.S.
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The candlemakers’ petition
The arguments presented in the following essay by Frederic Bastiat, written in 1845, are still in use in city halls, county courthouses, school district boardrooms, state capitals, and probably most prominently, Washington
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Corporate income tax rates in U.S. and other countries
Over the past two decades most large industrial countries have reduced their corporate income tax rates. Two countries, however, stand out from this trend: France and The United States.