Room Eight | Author | Larry Littlefield

Federal Revenues: Recent History

The past 35 years or so have seen a persistent history with regard to federal tax revenues. Republicans, who...

It is once again time for a major federal election, and I am once again doing my best to...

Word broke last week that former NYC Mayor and $billionaire Mike Bloomberg is thinking of running for President as...

In the 1950s and 1960s, a generation used New York City (and other central cities) as cash cows, and...

This Christmas, as has been the case for the better part of a decade, my children wanted the same...

All of the many available measures of employment show a stunning increase in the number of people working in...

The demand for subway service is soaring. In the private sector, such soaring demand would probably lead to more...

After years of soaring ridership, the NYC subway has reached the level of patronage that it had immediately after...

Local Area Personal income data has been released for 2014, and I’ve downloaded it to see if some of...

What can one say? According to something that came in the mail, we are up to 33 New York...