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I was invited, along with several other American professors, to deliver lectures at South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand in …
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Can We Close The Black Economic Gap?
After watching part of the presidential debate; I asked myself that question. While the economy has recovered significantly from the …
Read More »What the Media, Academics, and Politicians Get Wrong About Income Statistics — And Why It Matters
Mark Twain famously said that there were three kinds of lies — “lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Since this is …
Read More »Economic Conspiracies That Work Against Blacks
A general economic principle is that any law or regulation that restricts market entry tends to impose the greatest burden …
Read More »Compensating Differences
What economists call an ability to make “compensating differences” is a valuable tool in everyone’s arsenal. If people are prohibited …
Read More »USA Needs More Entrepreneurs, Not More Bureaucrats
Uber, the ride-hailing company, founded in 2009, began operations in San Francisco in 2011, and now has a presence in …
Read More »Black American’s Power to Influence Elections and Economically Self-Determine Our Future Continues to Decline
According to the National Vital Statistics Report, Vol. 64, No. 1 dated January 15, 2015, the Total Fertility Rate for …
Read More »More Robots and Kiosks in a $15 Minimum-Wage Future?
A basic economic premise holds that when the price of something rises, people seek to economize on its use. They …
Read More »Black Politicians and ‘Civil Rights’ Groups Are Condemning Black Youth to This
White teenage unemployment is about 14 percent. That for black teenagers is about 30 percent. The labor force participation rate …
Read More »Here’s How Hillary Clinton’s Policies Would Make ‘Pay Gap’ Worse
Women, lamented Hillary Clinton in an April 2014 tweet, make just 77 cents on the dollar to men. As a …
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