Tallying up the cost of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history

Economists are starting to put a price tag on the six-week government shutdown. But some of their calculations will be difficult to make because the shutdown temporarily limited government data.
American Enterprise Institute

What Economic Lessons About Health Care Costs Can We Learn from the Competitive Market for Cosmetic Procedures?

Between 1998 and 2018 prices for “Medical Care Services” in the US (as measured by the BLS’s CPI for Medical Care Services) more than doubled (+109.8% increase) while the CPI for “Hospital and Related ...
Los Angeles Times

‘Unprecedented by most measures’: Calculating the astonishing economic costs of COVID

The economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States will reach $14 trillion by the end of this year, our team of economists, public policy researchers and other experts estimate. That ...
American Enterprise Institute

What Economic Lessons About Health Care Costs Can We Learn from the Competitive Market for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery?

Between 1998 and 2021 prices for “Medical Care Services” in the US (as measured by the BLS’s CPI for Medical Care Services) more than doubled (+132.2% increase) while the CPI for “Hospital and Related ...