Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Want Lower Prices? Reduce Government Involvement.

Think medical care is getting too expensive? How about the cost of college? These are both categories in which the government is heavily involved and which get lots of government subsidies.
Now let's compare those to the costs of categories where the government is not as involved and where the free market generally sets prices. Huh. All of these have inflation adjusted decreases in price.
Huh. 


Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Income is Inversely Related to Unwed Births

Mark Perry has looked at the rather strong inverse correlation between having unwed births and household income. Clearly, the presence of a spouse adds to household income, so if you don't want to be poor, it's a bad idea to have children without marriage. Liberals, of course, fight this analysis because it does not fit with their conviction that racial discrimination by others is what keeps you from earning more.