Reflecting our new food preferences, what we've been eating for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even for dessert has changed.
As a leading indicator for business activity during a natural disaster, the color coding for the Waffle House Index provides a handy forecast.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from free tuition and natural disasters to design discrimination.
Approved by many of us, free tuition programs like the one at NYU Medical School create misdirected incentives that diminish their success.
When natural disasters like hurricanes, massive snowstorms, and wildfires strike a region, their economic impact is far more than the clean-up.
Called the Starbucks effect, current and future housing prices tend to rise when a Starbucks moves into the neighborhood.
The low airfares and pleasant flying culture at Southwest Airlines have had an unexpected impact on the quality of scientific research.
Complementing the averages in U.S. jobs reports, we can see much more variety through the wage rates paid by thousands of McDonald's around the country..