July 20, 2017
June 23, 2017
By changing our homes and our cream cheese purchases, taxes on bagels and windows can have unintended consequences when they distort our behavior.
June 20, 2017
When a Subway footlong is 11 inches and a box of Whoppers is half full, we can ask about the lawsuits that tried to remedy their misleading packaging.
June 16, 2017
Combine Maine's lobster glut with China's lobster demand and you come close to solving the mystery of why lobster prices have not sunk.
June 14, 2017
Although no one tells Maine's wild blueberry growers how much to plant, blueberry markets signal when to cut back and when to plant more.
June 2, 2017
Precise numbers can become misleading statistics when politicians, journalists and scholars use them for jobs projections and GDP totals.