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Continuing with our August e-links, today we inaugurate our presidential campaign issues series with inflation and immigration.
As U.S. trading relationships enter a transitional period, we can ask where and how we move from our traditional connection to China.
Knowing the world's busiest ports from a new Lloyd's report can help us assess the U.S./China protectionist trade policy.
Through 6 facts about women in the labor force, we can look back and look forward at our progress and problems.
Embraced by politicians and a majority of the population, the middle class is a group that can be tough to define.
When observers say that disaster events fuel the economy, they ignore that the activity is replacing the past rather than moving forward.
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.