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With African electrification its goal, Mission 300 hopes to coordinate and incentivize government policy, private investment, and consumers.
Always a challenge, the U.S. deficit is a problem for the Congress because we will soon hit the debt ceiling again.
Global banana consumption could change if a fungus continues to devastate the plantations that grow the Cavendish.
Connecting economics, currents, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from the top 1% to skiing and tariffs.
Continuing our January e-links, we recommend an article and podcast that celebrate and document 50 years of Saturday Night Live.
Because raising egg laying chickens takes us to gargantuan numbers, it is easier to see why avian flu affected the price of eggs.
Hello Everyone-
I’m Elaine.
Having been in the classroom for decades, written three books (and some of a fourth one), I like to think about economics everywhere all the time. Every day, I’ve added a blog to econlife—now it has been almost 14 years and more than 4,000 posts. I am delighted that you are here and hope we can have some economic fun together.