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The Obama administration saw a flurry of tech sector hype about self-driving cars. Not being a technical person, I had no ability to assess the hype on the merits, but companies were putting real money into it, and so I wrote pieces looking at the labor market, land use, and transportation policy implications. But t...

With media layoffs once again in the news, I’ve noticed a resurgence in the doomer narrative that claims the labor market must be in bad shape because we’re constantly hearing about layoffs.We saw this last year when prominent technology companies announced layoffs, but as I wrote then, the United States is a large ...