In a recent blog post, Matt Yglesias chides northeastern Republicans for opposing pro-housing deregulation in state legislatures: Republicans have led…

How do property taxes work in the United States, and what are their economic consequences?

Republicans in Congress are moving along with their “big, beautiful bill” to extend tax cuts, create some new tax provisions,…

A debate is raging over housing policy. Many state lawmakers have proposed overriding local growth controls — land-use regulations on…

The Mahmoud Khalil case has prompted much commentary on the following question: should the US government deport noncitizen terrorist sympathizers?…

On Friday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released preliminary figures for GDP and personal income by state for last year.…

One of the big problems in the American housing market today is the dearth of “starter” homes. These are smaller,…

On February 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it will be reducing its negotiated proportion of grant…

“Free” parking has a huge cost. That’s the message that UCLA planning professor Donald Shoup, who died last week, took…

The federal old-age programs, Social Security and Medicare, are going bust. The latest trustees reports show the Social Security trust…