August 16, 2019
An economist can explain the surprising reason that we eagerly anticipate the yearly launch of Pumpkin Spice Latte from Dunkin' and Starbucks.
August 13, 2019
July 25, 2019
To understand why avocado prices are soaring, we start with California and Mexico and then end up with Chipotle and the Chinese Middle class.
July 21, 2019
July 15, 2019
With the west side of NYC having just had a power outage, we can ask if there will be a boost in the birth rate in nine months because of blackout babies.
July 5, 2019
If you tried to book a room at the Taco Bell pop-up hotel or ordered a burrito at one of their restaurants, you might have seen Taco Bell's supply problems.
July 2, 2019
While healthcare price transparency sounds like a logical way to constrain soaring healthcare costs, the results were not quite what we expected.
June 19, 2019
Although fast-food consumption has been connected to income, recent research indicates the correlation is not what we expect.
June 11, 2019
Because album bundles increase our demand for a star's recordings, they help to propel a song or album to the #1 Billboard spot.
June 5, 2019
While electric vehicle subsidies create the incentives to buy more environmentally friendly vehicles, they might be targeting the wrong people.
May 29, 2019
Like corporations, countries engage in branding when they change their name or try to influence what the world thinks about them and their products.
May 28, 2019
Hearing it directly from a soybean farmer, we can learn the impact of China's retaliatory tariff on U.S. farmers and of U.S. subsidies.