Friday Links

In 2020, the 10 percent tax bracket applied to incomes up to $9,875 for individuals and $19,750 for couples. Now, those thresholds have increased to $11,925 and $23,850 to account for inflation. But what if our inflation measure is wrong?

AI scribes are helping doctors up code. (Statnews)

In the first  six months of the Trump administration, deregulation saved $86 billion in costs and 52.2 million hours of paperwork reductions.

A plurality of Blacks and Native Americans live.in distressed ZIP codes with these characteristics:

More than one in five residents lives in poverty. The median local household earns nearly $30,000 less annually than the median household nationally. One in seven homes is vacant or abandoned, one-third of prime age adults are not working, jobs are disappearing, and businesses are closing even as the national economy booms.