The chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, Jason Furman, made waves last week with a speech at NYU in which he rejected calls for a universal basic income (transcript). I generally think that Furman’s arguments on…

Much, much, much has been said about Wednesday’s welcome letter from the University of Chicago dean of students to incoming first-years regarding campus speech, with a focus on the following paragraph:

Our commitment to academic freedom…

The New York Times reports that Donald Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns — a loss that he presumably could have carried forward for several years (or even decades) to erase future taxes. The Trump campaign issued the following…

The New York Times has a fascinating story this morning about family cemeteries, focusing on the descendants of Standard Oil Trust co-founder Charles Pratt. According to the Times:

The betting website PredictIt now puts the odds of Donald Trump winning the White House this November at 22%. I don’t think that estimate is too far off: Trump…

Tyler Cowen, who previously thought that a universal basic income (UBI) “might be a good idea,” now says he’s having “second thoughts.” I’m a fan of Tyler Cowen’s writing (as well as his podcast), and so I take…

The House Republicans’ plan for a “destination-based cash flow tax” is generating lots, lots, lots of attention. The basic premise is as follows: A 20% tax would…

A fascinating column in the New York Times Sunday Business section claims that the growing life span gap between the rich and the poor is undermining the Social Security system’s redistributive design. Neil Irwin writes: