May 4, 2018
With job guarantee proposals in the news, we can start to consider what so massive an entitlement program could involve.
May 3, 2018
Describing why we'll have new hotel shampoo bottles, Marriott, a hotel guest, and an economist would have different explanations.
May 2, 2018
Sometimes low cost production can make goods as different as a caviar sandwich and a Model T Ford more similar than we might expect.
May 1, 2018
Looking at the world's most bike-friendly cities, you can see why only one city in the U.S. was among the top twenty in 2015 and none were there in 2017.
April 30, 2018
Behavioral economists can explain why are lured into buying a year's subscription for movie watching and other media that we barely use.
April 29, 2018
With postal service innovation a basic problem, the U.S. Postal System is ranked lower than France, Japan, Poland, and nine other countries.
April 28, 2018
Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from the mom penalty and the Brexit impact to moving decisions.
April 27, 2018
To how the Europeans feel about a Brexit impact, we can add how the U.K. will affect the EU's GDP, population, budget, imports and exports when it leaves.
April 24, 2018
The decisions we make about marijuana regulation will shape the role of government, of markets, and even whether we have marijuana-infused wine.
April 23, 2018
April 22, 2018
Whether we look at a cartoon on women's "mental load" at home or a recent study on the gender pay gap in Denmark, the problem is the mommy penalty.
April 21, 2018
Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from credit card signatures and chicken paw tariffs to the safety of charismatic animals.