During the 2026 Winter Olympics, we should look for silver medal sadness and bronze joy as medal winners have different counterfactuals.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from China's GDP to snowstorm parking spaces.
Continuing with our February e-links, this week we recommend a podcast that returns us to the 19th century invention that liberated women.
Heavy snow always brings with it the debate over Winter Dibs and our right to use parking chairs to preserve shoveled parking spaces.
With Southwest making the gobsmacking switch to assigned seats, airline boarding has been in the news again.
Recent legislative changes have affected our food stamp program called SNAP and also the definition of candy.
While the roads component of a transportation infrastruction matters everywhere, the GDP boost is especially high in developing nations.
Dealing with a grade inflation problem that most schools experience, Harvard has announced several suggestions for its faculty.
Knowing that China's GDP statistical approach is different from the U.S. can let us compare the two more realistically.