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August 9, 2026
economic news roundup and assortative dating
August 9, 2026
How Marriage Divides Us

With college students using a new dating app, it could be more likely that assortative dating creates inequality.

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July 2, 2026
Weekly Economic News Roundup and global wealth
July 2, 2026
6 Facts About Global Wealth

Looking at recently published global wealth reports, we can see how and where the world's wealth is concentrated.

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March 29, 2026
superrich
March 29, 2026
What It’s Nice To Know About the Superrich

With the most affluent slice of housholds more affluent than ever, we can take a look at who is superrich and how they spend their money.

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January 21, 2026
Weekly Economic News Roundup and cat spending
January 21, 2026
The Economic Side of a Cat Parent

Touching us geographically, personally, and economically, the spending we allocate to our cats has increased considerably.

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October 2, 2025
Weekly Economic News Roundup and how we spend
October 2, 2025
The New Ways We Spend Our Money

Seemingly simple as one number, household spending varies when we know the head's age and compare 2022 to 1972.

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August 21, 2025
Weekly Economic News Roundup and baby names
August 21, 2025
The (Whopping) Cost of Raising a child

While the tooth fairy is spending less, for almost everything else, the cost of raising a child has gone up.

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June 26, 2025
ageing populations
June 26, 2025
What Can We Learn From Japan’s Diaper Demand?

From individuals, to households, to the entire country, Japan's aging population already has had an immense impact.

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February 6, 2025
Weekly Economic News Roundup and egg price fixing
February 6, 2025
Why Eggs Are Like Tariffs

When we look at eggs and tariffs, we see a vast difference between their impact on low and high income households.

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December 6, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and housing shortage
December 6, 2024
Why It’s Tough to Calculate the Housing Shortage

Although we "treasure what we measure," we should realize that all statistics, like the size of the U.S. housing shortage, are debatable.

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August 20, 2024
defining the middle class
August 20, 2024
Why Politicians Embrace the Middle Class

Embraced by politicians and a majority of the population, the middle class is a group that can be tough to define.

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June 3, 2024
household carbon emissions
June 3, 2024
Is the Middle Class Still Shrinking?

Having seen, last year, that the middle class was shrinking, we can ask now if there still is increasingly less in the middle.

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May 12, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and global wealth
May 12, 2024
How Household Wealth Might Surprise Us

Looking at household wealth, we would be surprised by the generational group whose asset values have soared.

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