Blaming Wall Street is a favorite sport of politicians, but maybe look in the mirror first and try removing barriers to housing supply.

Very nice tech market map in the municipal finance space by Brent Sullivan.

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Really enjoyed my conversation with former WH colleague Vance Ginn on his 'Let People Prosper' podcast. We talked about the government's role in the economy, excessive fiscal spending, and how the focus of the field of economics has changed in recent decades, among other topics.

.Adam Michel: Top Tax Rates Are Already on Wrong Side of Laffer Curve in at Least Ten States cato.org/blog/top-tax-r… via Cato Institute

What a legendary Deanship!

Cultural Revolution vibes in this Wall Street Journal Opinion piece “Why I’m Leaving Clark University” wsj.com/articles/why-i…

'President Biden Would Make the US a Tax Rate Outlier' cato.org/blog/biden-wou… via Cato Institute Adam Michel

The U.S. corporate tax rate is already worse than the OECD average and China.

Biden wants to make it the second-worst in the entire OECD.

SOURCE: Adam Michel

Tax-Driven Economic Outcomes and Migration by Gregory Kearney and Joshua Rauh open.substack.com/pub/libertylen…

A very interesting piece titled; ' Tax-Driven Economic Outcomes and Migration; The Forest and the Trees'
co-authored by Joshua Rauh . A short thread.
libertylensecon.substack.com/p/tax-driven-e…

Tax-Driven Economic Outcomes and Migration: The Forest and the Trees. Some Liberty Lens thoughts on the LSE Inequalities conference I attended a couple weeks ago. Bottom line: Migration is important but behavior of those attached to the place more so. open.substack.com/pub/libertylen…

Excellent to have you on board!!

⁦@chadaldeman: I’m sure Joshua Rauh⁩ isn’t surprised…

When school funding rises, where does the money go? chadaldeman.com/p/when-school-…

Do taxes affect migration? Academic researchers offer new evidence - from golf courses & American history - check out my review of recent articles by David R. Agrawal Kenneth Tester Joshua Rauh Traviss Cassidy ugo antonio troiano & other leading tax experts

taxfoundation.org/blog/taxes-sta…

How have states spent pandemic-era relief funds?

A new working paper from Stan Veuger of AEI and coauthors Jeffrey P. Clemens, Oliver Giesecke, & Joshua Rauh examines how states spent fiscal windfalls from pandemic-era relief funds. 1/

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Talk about low expectations⚾️. Sadly seems accurate. wsj.com/sports/basebal…

🎉 Job market done! 🎉

I am thrilled to share that I will be a Hoover Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution (Hoover Institution) starting in the fall.

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🚨 What Do States Do With Fiscal Windfalls? Evidence from the Pandemic 🚨

Jeffrey P. Clemens, Joshua Rauh, Stan Veuger and I study how state governments used the fiscal aid that was allocated during the pandemic.

We find that:
* Total state government revenues increased by around

Of the almost $1T in Federal pandemic-era fiscal aid to states, 38% went to general government expenditures (excluding healthcare, education, and infrastructure) and 7% on employee pension funding. Stan Veuger Joshua Rauh Jeffrey P. Clemens Oliver Giesecke
edwardconard.com/macro-roundup/…

“…we find that incremental pandemic-era fiscal aid to states was most likely to end up in the categories of general administrative service spending and employee pension benefit funding.”

Good paper by Stan Veuger Joshua Rauh Jeffrey P. Clemens Oliver Giesecke

aei.org/research-produ…