September 17, 2019
With plant-based foods growing like weeds, we have to decide if their vegan names should reflect the foods that they resemble.
September 16, 2019
Through the excellent Netflix documentary, "American Factory," and Bureau of Labor Force projections, we can see disappearing manufacturing jobs.
September 12, 2019
We might find some surprises when we look closely at categories of consumer debt that include credit cards, student and auto loans, and mortgages.
September 9, 2019
To explain why healthcare costs are increasing, we can just look at Beethoven's String Quartet #14 and Baumol's Cost Disease.
September 6, 2019
For fantasy sports games to be legal in states where online gambling was prohibited, they had to prove whether luck or skill mattered more.
September 4, 2019
Finding out what we eat, what we waste, and what we spend on our food can depend on the decade we look at and when we were born.
September 3, 2019
Tempted by thousands of hours of digital distractions, at home and at work, we diminish our creativity, our productivity, and our self-satisfaction.
August 28, 2019
While women's wealth in the world has been trending upwards, a look at the estimates in the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report 2018 reveals the gaps.
August 27, 2019
As the downside of low unemployment, traffic congestion can have an invisible cost that relates to time, gas, and aggravation.
August 25, 2019
While the North Korean economy is centrally planned, the Choco Pie is a tiny example of the how a market system develops.
August 22, 2019
About much more than sauces and salads, tomato tradeoffs take us to science and supermarkets, history and trade agreements.
August 20, 2019
Firstborn children are more likely to become CEOs, politicians, and top managers because of the way their parents treated them.