Editorials

Tax cuts demagogued as giveaways to the rich were creating higher wages and bonuses for workers and producing the lowest unemployment rates on record for blacks, Hispanics, single women, the disabled and those with criminal records. Wages at the bottom were growing faster than at the top. The once-…

This results in a proliferation of bad policies that restrict freedom without achieving the policies’ stated goals. As such, there are reasons to celebrate when someone steps in and challenges bad rules. Case in point: a legal challenge to New York City’s Rent Stabilization Law, or RSL …

Much of the Twin Cities is still in ruins. Boardedup storefronts still display makeshift notices that read “black owned” or “minority owned” to ward off further destruction. Many locals are reluctant to speak on the record, but some are eager to do so. “It’s been agony,” says Mohamed Ali, a native …

Trump must release his tax returns and agree to a non-partisan panel of fact-checkers. The fact-checkers, he says, should point out the debaters’ errors in real time and conclude the event by summarizing their findings. Among really bad ideas, this one is a prize-winner. Let us count the reasons wh…

Editor’s note: Please be aware offensive terms are repeated here solely for the purpose of identifying and unpacking them honestly. These terms may upset some readers. Steel yourself, brave reader, here they are: Peanut gallery Eenie meenie miney moe Gyp No can do The same grammarian who authored t…

IN March 1999, the CNMI government convened an economic summit funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs. (Since the U.S. took over the NMI after World War II, the feds have been picking up the tab for similar other fora/conferences/studies/reports, etc. The latest w…

Congratulations! IN a book published in 1966 about the U.S.-administered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (which included the NMI), the author E.J. Kahn Jr. mentioned meeting a 27-year-old Micronesian whose education consisted of three years at a Catholic mission school. He told Kahn that “hi…

But as an economics professor, I recognize that the questions of social coordination economics addresses are in many ways much more complex and difficult, especially when it comes to controlling results. Economics is difficult After all, we have successfully sent rockets to many places in our plane…