$100,000 U.S. visa fee vs. China’s one big beautiful K visa.

🍂Ten years ago, I wrote this love letter to Autumn—and it still holds true today. Autumn is magical. It’s colorful, honest, and full of personality. It invites creativity, layers, and cozy comforts. It slows time down and intensifies life’s little moments. Back then, I called

On the multi-earner economy and worker power Check it out: liyapalagashvili.substack.com/p/when-workers…

How do we get those monthly jobs numbers in the headlines? Why are the revisions so large? ft. my wonderful colleague Jack Salmon

When Workers Have Other Options: Rethinking Power in the Multi-Earner Economy Monopsony, Meet Your Match: The Rise of Worker Options Liya Palagashvili buff.ly/9T56KhQ

🧵: What happens when workers can actually walk away? Liya Palagashvili explores how the rise of multi-income streams and portable benefits could shift the balance of power in labor markets, reducing decades of employer leverage through “job lock.”

New substack with Jack Salmon on BLS methodology, benchmark revisions, and the state of employment statistics. 🔗 bit.ly/4nBDv33

A once-boring topic now fueling dinner table debates—get all the latest BLS drama in this Labor Market Matters piece with Revana Sharfuddin & Sean Garvey🙃 🔗labormarketmatters.com/p/the-septembe…

What I love about Liya Palagashvili's thinking here is that she’s taking something union organizers keep suggesting only they can achieve—"worker power"—and she’s explaining how being an independent contractor actually can achieve it too. labormarketmatters.com/p/when-workers…

🚨 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt 🚨 "for having explained innovation-driven economic growht" The best prize in years!

Contributions to our understanding of how entrepreneurship and innovation can transform the world for the better. Congratulations!!!

Matt Ridley argues that ‘Innovation is the child of freedom and the parent of prosperity.’ My reading of Joel Mokyr, starting with The Lever of Riches, has been detailed unpacking of the point captured in the nice turn of phase from Ridley. In Mokyr’s work there has to be a

New from me: In its public comments about New Jersey's proposed independent-contractor rule, the Workplace Justice Lab at Rutgers University cites several studies worth a closer look. freelancebusting.com/p/double-or-no…

I'm not a single-issue voter, but if I were... "California Gov. Newsom Vetoes Bill That Would Limit Port Automation" wsj.com/articles/calif…

Brian Albrecht Good thread, but I noticed you didn't directly discuss my Mercatus Center colleague Revana Sharfuddin's proposal to reform the tax code so it no longer deters various forms of private retraining. This seems like a good proposal that is consistent with your desire for pro-dynamism policy.

AI is reshaping the economy, but our tax code makes it easier to invest in machines than in the workers who use them.

Our tax code makes it easier to invest in robots than in the workers who use them. Revana Sharfuddin breaks down six outdated restrictions blocking workforce training, and how to fix them. 👉 bit.ly/3LpWbV4

In West Virginia, we should look at implementing policies that allow for portable benefits. For more info, read here: mercatus.org/research/polic…

I hear there is an abundance movement?! If you want abundance you need market-tested innovation … you need, in short, Hayek’s ‘marvel’. What Hayek Understood About Markets - Peter Boettke - The Dispatch thedispatch.com/article/hayek-…