Researchers at the University of Washington, asked by Seattle to study the increase in the city’s minimum wage, have some difficult news for the city…
Posts published in “Economics”
The United States’ federal budget spends a lot of money: between $3.5 and $4.0 trillion annually. How much do citizens of the United States earn…
If socialists and statists wanted to damage limited government and republicanism they could not have chosen better men as Manchurians than Donald Trump and Sam…
Minimum wage debates tend to overstate the estimated and real effects of any changes to the minimum wage in the United States. Most studies show…
What do the strongest state economies in the United States share? Blue states with high taxes? NOPE. Red states, with low taxes and right-to-work laws?…
One of the more popular (or infamous) posts here on Almost Classical is “The 90% Tax Rate Myth.” It explores the differences between marginal and…
Economists agree on more than they disagree. This might seem like an exaggeration, since the debates on policy are so heated. But policy debates are…
During the Progressive Era from the 1865-1935, the “progressive movement” supported eugenics and other “scientific” methods for improving the societies of humans. The rush to…
This post originated on Rogue Rhetorician, yet aligns with many of the comments and emails I receive to Almost Classical. Name calling is the Internet…
No Trump voter cares what I write. They don’t. They don’t care what my opinion of them is. They don’t care what any other over-educated…