July 9, 2020
Through a BMW subscription, the incentive to buy a menu of extras like heated steering wheels shifts from the typical car dealer's option package.
July 8, 2020
Unequal internet access in the U.S. and beyond has created a remote learning "homework gap" that relates to geography and income.
July 7, 2020
Observing the lockdowns' economic impact, two University of Chicago economists compared consumer traffic in places that did and did not shelter in place.
July 4, 2020
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from a misleading GDP to music industry diversity.
July 2, 2020
Looking at recording industry diversity through the artists, the songwriters, and the producers, we would see an inadequate female presence.
June 27, 2020
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from shaping a recovery to fixing our roads.
June 24, 2020
Looking at Cape Town, South Africa and 12 U.S. cities we can see why the basic water tradeoff involves a choice between conservation and affordability.
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 20, 2020
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this weeks's economic news roundup ranges from more diversity in movies to fewer coins and higher prices.
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 17, 2020
Through leads, co-leads, and directors, we can see the underrepresentation of diversity in movies for gender, race, and ethnicity.
June 16, 2020
Invisible to most of us, the fish farms that produce almost half of our seafood are figuring out how to cope with less restaurant demand.