Why Economists Continue to Misjudge Tariffs
Impact of Tariffs on American Households One reason economists are still puzzled is that American households are not behaving as models predict. In particular, they aren’t responding to uniform tariff changes in spending. When they do change their behavior, it often seems to pull in different directions, kind of offsetting each other. Recent polls from […]
How conservatives misjudge the Supreme Court
Six of the nine Supreme Court justices are appointed by Republicans, but red states have been blocked by federal courts from barring boys from women's restrooms. What was the point of the generations-long battle for control of the High Court? In August, a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower […]