Like athletes use music before competing, so too can we energize our human capital at work with music that empowers us physiologically and psychologically.
In refrigerators in developing nations, we can see the impact of affluence on their diet and on supply and demand that will change worldwide food prices.
The 2014 Social Security Trustees Report says that after we deplete the remains of the program's trust funds in 2033, payroll taxes will not provide all promised benefits.
Our weekly roundup includes the everyday economics of consumer surplus, monopolistic competition, economic development, poverty and technology spillover.
Cash grants are an alternative form of foreign aid. Tough to accept, cash could have more benefits than other traditional programs.
The spread of refrigeration in China has positive and negative externalities that relate to household diets, greenhouse gases and transport and home waste.
Today's weekly roundup includes the everyday economics of sovereign debt defaults, oil boom towns, athletes' labor markets and the GDP.
Typified by the Tour de France, male/female athletes' salary gender gap will diminish when female athletes' media, consumer and commercial appeal increase.
With Argentina again defaulting on her sovereign debt, she is violating the sanctity of contracts and lessened her borrowing ability at home and globally.
With more austerity resistance to government spending cutbacks, Greece could again be heading for a sovereign debt default and a bailout.









