Kevin Roche

Minnesota's initial unemployment claims in recent weeks tell us something is not going great.

Inflation looks muted and is lower in Republican-run states.

Residents leave Minnesota at a very high rate, especially middle-income working families.

RFK, Jr. can't avoid trying to exercise his whacked conspiracy theory nonsense, which overwhelms the good policies he could prefer.

The media that praised restrictions on children during the epidemic now writes articles about how damaging they were.

An under-appreciated Executive Order beefs up the requirements for research to be considered by federal agencies.

A new report gives a perspective on private health plan enrollment trends over the last five years.

Doing a monthly or so catch up on the research.

A mediocre jobs report for May.

The Trump/Musk rupture was inevitable and came even faster than I expected. RFK, Jr. will be next, as I also predicted. Too much risk of a real health disaster with…

An irregular round-up of CV-19 research. More to come.

The latest job opernings and labor turnover report has mixed data.

Our debt issue is driven by "entitlement" programs that are riddled with waste.

Book ban hysteria ranks up their with climate, illegal immigrants, and government funding cuts in the whacked progressive pantheon on non-existent terrorism.

Multiple weeks of lies and misinformation from the Strib--which just reflects its standard operating procedure.