To determine the appropriate level of infrastructure spending, there is no alternative to aggregating the results of project-by-project…
Discusses fiscal challenges facing local governments due to Covid19.
The Covid-19 public health crisis has sharply reduced the earnings of millions of U.S. households, following the severe curtailment of…
For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of…
In this essay, we review the basic economics of housing supply and the functioning of US housing markets to better understand the…
Should China build mega-cities or a network of linked middle-sized
metropolises? Can Europe’s mid-sized cities compete with global…
When I hear free-spending national leaders call for more infrastructure investment, I think of Detroit’s absurd People Mover monorail…
Should voters blame President Barack Obama for America’s current economic malaise?
The Mitt Romney campaign, hard as it tries, will find…