By changing our homes and our cream cheese purchases, taxes on bagels and windows can have unintended consequences when they distort our behavior.
For Throwback Thursday (#TBT) we can fondly look back to comfortable economy class travel before less pitch and width created shrinking airline seats.
Just like there's no such thing as a free lunch, for consumers, retailers and shippers, there's no such thing as free shipping.
When a Subway footlong is 11 inches and a box of Whoppers is half full, we can ask about the lawsuits that tried to remedy their misleading packaging.
When politicians plan to update our transportation infrastructure, they are influenced by a hidden hand that can be benevolent or malevolent.
Starting with Whole Foods, today's Amazon economics lesson will include topics that range from Amazon's acquisitions and innovations to their IPO.
Combine Maine's lobster glut with China's lobster demand and you come close to solving the mystery of why lobster prices have not sunk.
With shopping malls closing, we can look back at why they first began and why their design was a revolutionary innovation.