Justin Fox

The latest ranking of global spending on research and development has U.S. tech companies on top and Chinese rivals on the rise.

After unprecedented dominance of US startup funding in the 2010s, the region has lost some ground. But it’s still No. 1 by a long distance.

Excess water in the Tulare Lake basin is providing opportunities to put the country’s most productive farming region on a path to sustainability.

Falling US income tax revenue is the main reason the default showdown has come sooner than expected, but outlays are up, too, for some interesting reasons.

The pandemic spending binge has mostly been reversed, but some programs have expired only recently. What has been driving spending up is higher interest payments on the federal debt.

The latest personal income tax data shows the state bringing in less revenue than it did before the pandemic, which could hamper its ability to pay its bills.

New York has been losing people to other states for a while. But something new happened during the pandemic: The people who left had higher incomes than those who stayed

A conversation with economist Jennifer Doleac about recent research findings on the pandemic crime wave and other hot criminal justice topics.

The nationwide jump in shootings and homicides in the pandemic and rise in other crimes that followed have made crime a hot topic again in the US. To see how recent findings fit with the national discussion on crime, Justin Fox talked to Jennifer Doleac, an economist at Texas A&M University who studies crime.

Pickpocketing is down. Senseless assaults are up. That’s not a great trade.