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Poverty in America

Posted June 30, 2024

The official poverty rate in the U.S. stood at about 11.5% in 2022. But as Jeff Fuhrer highlights, this is almost certainly a vast undercounting. He...

The CHIPS Act and Onshoring Semiconductor Production

Posted June 23, 2024

The 2022 CHIPS Act allocated over $50 billion in incentives to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing and research and development. Two years on,...

The U.S. and China: Trade and Trade Wars

Posted June 9, 202400:24:24

China's share of manufacturing exports rose from just over 1% of the world's total in 1990, to almost one-fifth today. Research by Gordon Hanson and...

The Economics of EV Adoption

Posted June 2, 2024

Electric vehicles are thought to represent a partial, but important solution to realizing net-zero emissions goals. Toward this end, the European Union,...

An Economist's Take on the Circular Economy

Posted May 26, 202400:27:13

Discussions about the circular economy, which emphasizes sharing, reusing, repairing, and recycling existing materials -- has traditionally been the...