From the U.K. Spectator’s report on the amazing success of supply-side economics in Sweden, and finance minister Anders Borg, the man behind it: “When Europe’s finance ministers meet for a group photo, it’s easy to spot the rebel — Anders … read more >

Las Vegas Review-Journal — “Home prices rose for the third straight month in April and the inventory of listings shrank to a five-week supply, the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported Monday. The median price for 3,185 single-family houses … read more >

The graph above shows two monthly series back to 1965 (data here): a) annual wage increases in the BLS series “Average Hourly Earnings of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees: Total Private” (blue line), and b) annual inflation calculated from the Consumer … read more >

ODESSA, TX — “Five bachelor’s degrees at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin got a new price tag of $10,000 last Wednesday when the UT System board of regents approved the Texas Science Scholar Program.  The program was … read more >

Highlights from today’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover report from the BLS: 1. There were 3.74 million job openings on the last business day of March, up from 3.565 million in February. The number of job openings has trended upward … read more >

New from the Institute for Justice: “License to Work: A National Study of Burdens from Occupational Licensing is the first national study to measure how burdensome occupational licensing laws are for lower-income workers and aspiring entrepreneurs. The report documents the … read more >