We have fewer price and quantity signals because agricultural production figures on certain crops and livestock were eliminated because of USDA budget cuts.
Federal Reserve monetary policy is not taking account of money from marijuana retailers because banks in Colorado have refused to give them accounts.
It is a mystery whether college matters because it creates better human capital or creates signals that indicate graduates completed a long-term task.
Partially reflecting more women in the labor force, the participation rate rose from the 1970s until recently but now the mystery is why it is falling.
This week's everyday economics involved 6 economists and such ideas as product differentiation, behavioral economics, marginal utility, price and trade.
With the House requiring dynamic scoring of tax legislation from the CBO, the bigger tax debate resurfaces on how much redistribution and spending.
Like a dysfunctional family with members who dislike each other, the EU stays together because of the benefits of David Ricardo's comparative advantage.
Pricing ecosystems and the market's practical and ethical dilemmas take us to Malthusian economics and the difficulty of finding a valid conservation tool.