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Increased hospital system consolidation in small Metropolitan Statistical Areas is adversely related to nurse wage growth.

Salaries in the U.S. aren’t keeping up with inflation, despite pandemic-related increases in some sectors. That’s a major threat to the future for all working Americans – especially the youngest.

How Showering Money on Both Parties Paralyzed Regulators

The Consumer Welfare Standard is severely limited or defective, preventing it from being an appropriate standard for modern antitrust.

Lynn Parramore explores Peter Temin’s new book on the country’s two economic histories: progress for whites, slavery and segregation for Black people. He warns of a second-tier global future unless they come together.

President Biden’s first SOTU Address was a missed opportunity to say what he knows to be true: Stock buybacks manipulate the market and leave most Americans worse off

US regulators can step in to ensure drug pricing both supports patient access and drug development

US regulators can step in to ensure drug pricing both supports patient access and drug development

Between a rock and a hard place

Between a rock and a hard place

To strengthen the American semiconductor industry, Congress should condition additional funds on suspending stock buybacks

To strengthen the American semiconductor industry, Congress should condition additional funds on suspending stock buybacks

On deregulation and Covid masks, libertarians are loud. On female liberty, deafening silence.

Contrary to rhetoric from Democrats and Republicans, the U.S. has an economic interest in trade and peace with China

Economist Darrick Hamilton, co-author of a new report on wealth across racial and ethnic groups in Tulsa, Oklahoma, explores the legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre with the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s Lynn Parramore.