CITIZEN ANALYST

Things were looking pretty good on the inflation front until June's CPI report on Tuesday.

I don't know exactly how, but sometime within the last year I found myself added to the History Facts daily email distribution list. ...

After January's CPI setback, February was a solid reversion to the better trends we saw in 2024

December's CPI release was a very encouraging report, and a big sigh of relief at the same time.

Final analysis and reflections on the election and what it means for our political future.

What's the outlook for shelter inflation in the coming year?

Yes, wages, salaries and incomes are keeping up with inflation, and yes, you are better off today than at almost any other time.

It turns out that our desire for equality may be a little more complicated than we realize.

The supply chains of most businesses run trade deficits with each other. Why do we care about national "macro" trade deficits then?

Even a brief look at this situation forces you to ask an important question: should labor unions be exempt from anti-trust and "monopoly"...

In most election years, you often see and hear Democrats discussing the concept of who pays what in income taxes. It's (very) often...

Below is a brief (and hopefully fun) history of the Electoral College, that much maligned, but often misunderstood, American presidential...

Imagine going to the polls to vote on election day, and instead of receiving a government-printed ballot with directions to your own...

I recently had the fortune of interviewing Professor Gerard Magliocca of Indiana Law School. Prof. Magliocca is one of the country's...

Christopher Rufo has made his name reporting on DEI issues across the country, and he's done a lot of good investigative journalism on...

It's quite a process to formally to submit an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, and I learned that firsthand recently. You need a...

Professor Kurt Lash wrote a guest essay in the New York Times on December 29th discussing Section Three of the 14th Amendment[1].  Lash...

About a month ago now, there was some very interesting back and forth on X (formerly known as Twitter) between Bill Ackman, Mark Cuban,...

I recently submitted a research paper to Social Science Research Network (SSRN) on a key Section 3 (of the 14th Amendment) related topic....

A conversation with Prof. Mark A. Graber on the history of Section 3, its applicability to Donald Trump and the events after the 2020...