Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's weekly economic news roundup ranges from less beer and manufacturing jobs to more earnings.
Because Japan is not a country of beer drinkers, it has to adjust to massive beer demand when it hosts the Rugby World Cup.
At $1 trillion, the ballooning U.S. deficit can be understood as a number, as a proportion of the budget, and the reason we owe China so much money.
Ranging from barely budging to a 32 percent increase, the ups and downs of average hourly earnings can be debated, depending on your numbers.
With plant-based foods growing like weeds, we have to decide if their vegan names should reflect the foods that they resemble.
Through the excellent Netflix documentary, "American Factory," and Bureau of Labor Force projections, we can see disappearing manufacturing jobs.
Looking at climate change, most economists calculate cost and benfit instead of focusing on the unknown unknowns that could happen.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from economic uncertainty and movie theater popcorn to debt.