August 11, 2020
A Consumer Price Index (CPI) that went up by just .6 percent during the past year hides a much larger increase in some grocery prices.
July 30, 2020
A looming Social Security shortfall could happen much sooner because of pandemic spending and its impact on the birth rate.
July 16, 2020
The cost of opening schools safely becomes more of a concern when we look at the impact of the coronavirus on state finance.
June 22, 2020
Much too low, the D+ from the American Society of Civil Engineers for our transportation infrastructure needs reconsideration.
June 21, 2020
Called an alphabet recovery, the ABC's of the GDP trajectory after a massive decline can be illustrated through the letters of the alphabet and a Swoosh.
June 19, 2020
Hershey's Breath Saver mints and the U.S. Mint have both contributed to the coin shortages problems that the Federal Reserve is trying to solve.
June 18, 2020
Because a Covid-19 basket of goods and services has a different inflation rate from the CPI basket, the cost of living might not be what we think it is.
June 12, 2020
While the headlines tell us the monthly unemployment rate, we can look at other numbers in the report to get the whole story.
June 1, 2020
Although the per capita GDP gap between two countries could appear large, the difference shrinks when you bring welfare into your calculations.
May 28, 2020
Even if all works out with with a fast-track compressed timeline for developing the COVID-19 vaccine, we will have distribution dilemmas to resolve.
May 25, 2020
Looking at the first shopping mall and its evolution, we can see how its original concept will now be turned upside down.
May 8, 2020
When we look at where consumer spending has declined and where we expect to spend in the future, we can ask where recovery spending will come from.