Inflation, Kamala Harris, Elissa Slotkin, Mike Rogers and the Michigan Legislature, oh my!

By Okay, folks, are you ready? The race for all the marbles is underway, candidates chosen for all federal and state offices, gobs of money being raised and spent, ads by the mega-gross assaulting the senses, volunteers knocking-calling-pleading for votes and commentators commenting continuously. Let’s begin by simplifying the main race, the presidential election. That race…

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Trial begins Tuesday for ex-state senator Dean Tran accused of illegally obtaining COVID unemployment benefits

Former state senator and one-time congressional candidate Dean Tran pleaded not guilty last November to 25 counts of wire fraud and three counts of filing false tax returns, according to court records … The trial of a former state senator and one-time congressional candidate accused of collecting unemployment benefits illegally during the pandemic and failing…

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America’s Luck on Unemployment May Soon Run Out

It’s no academic obscurity. If Eggertsson is right, the existence of the Beveridge threshold explains how inflation has fallen rapidly without much of a rise in unemployment — and why any further … Gauti Eggertsson is an Icelandic-born economist at Brown University who has a knack for describing interesting economic phenomena. He identified and named…

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