Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from expensive theater tickets and a hockey team name to minimum wage tradeoffs.
You have a regulatory dispute when North Carolina's hog farmers want to use their less costly manure lagoons while neighbors, objecting to the smells, want legal limits.
When you look at Norway's new banknotes and their (hilarious) video describing the journey of a cod from the sea to a wallet, you can see that central bankers have become more interesting.
While it is easy for us to see when the minimum wage goes up, the impact on low wage workers' non-wage compensation is much less evident.
While the movie industry has been disrupted by more of us watching movies and Netflix series at home, it might not be dying.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from Greek bailout problems and train station behavior to the value of the Starbucks brand.
As Greek bailout talks continue, European monetary officials are also concerned that a Greek statistician could receive a life sentence for reporting accurate macroeconomic statistics.