The AEI Housing Center's National HPA Index tracks home price apprecation across the nation and across price tiers.

In honor of my friend Stephen Miran’s nomination to chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors I want to highlight an area where he is correct, or at least more correct than most participants ...

Sometimes a hard-fought First Amendment win at the US Supreme Court leads to a longer, more difficult battle for the victor after the justices send the case back to a lower court to deliver a new ...

In a country with widespread use of quotas, preferences and set-asides, we seldom see unadulterated merit, especially in academics. As board members of a foundation that awards scholarships based ...

(3) distrust (plus the intensity of it) they harbor toward the nation’s leading foreign adversary, the People’s Republic of China (PRC); It upheld, in the face of a First Amendment challenge ...

When I first conceived this newsletter, one of the audiences I had in mind was what I called the “All-In crowd,” the people who listen to and engage with the All-In Podcast. For those who ...

Last week I wrote about the grid defection discussion circa 2014, motivated by Elisa Wood’s webinar with Seyyed Ali Sadat and Joshua Pearce of Western Ontario University on their new paper in ...

More importantly, when it comes to behavior, Republican ever-married men are less likely to report having strayed. In fact, 18% of Democratic ever-married men (18-55) report having ever had sex ...

Scores from the latest round of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) were released on December 10 by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ...

And why the “Social Security Fairness Act” is anything but. New reports indicate that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Shumer (NY) has promised a vote by December 20 on the Social Security ...

One of my favorite papers by 2024 Nobel laureates Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson goes back a decade: “Can We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an ...

How do you know if someone went to Harvard? They’ll tell you. If a recent Wall Street Journal story is any indication, though, that classic joke may soon be outdated. According to the Journal ...