I'm gonna lay out some evidence I've been threading together on the suburbs, the history of segregation & racism in America, and policy proposal, or at least frameworks, for our next government.
The Perverse Incentives of Cutting Planned Parenthood Funding
660 days to go. Paul Ryan's argument that "money is fungible" with regards to abortions at Planned Parenthood clinics is interesting. It makes some sense--even if abortions specifically aren't floated by the federal government, the dollars that keep the lights on at a place that helps with abortions are federally funded. So, Ryan argues, those …
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Scrooge Hard: An Economist’s Christmas
At Christmas, cash should be King. Or at least, I thought so. Christmas can be a weird time for economists. We see deals that probably aren’t deals, we view intangible value exchanges with skepticism, and we’re cold, aloof individuals writ large. As a recent business school grad with a concentration in something like economics, …
Ryan
On Memorial Day, I woke up to my sister shouting that there was an ambulance at the Redman's. Ambulances aren't supposed to be quiet. My oldest friend, Ryan Redman, had taken his own life. We hadn’t been close for a long time. In the last five years, he’s honestly been closer to my sisters than …
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