An Urban's Rural View

There are economic consequences to China's return to less pragmatic, more Marxist-Leninist policies.

There's an emerging consensus that the Fed won't be raising interest rates much more. On the other hand, interest rates look likely to remain near current highs for a while.

In the view of this blog's author, who's leaving Washington, D.C., in favor of Washington state, there's more to the capital than political dysfunction.

The labor market is tight, in part because of the pandemic, but mostly because long-term demographic trends are squeezing the labor pool.

What the striking auto workers are demanding makes perfect sense from their point of view, but they risk pricing themselves out of their jobs.