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Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from Swiss cash and U.S. poker to the Seattle minimum wage.
Using a multi-disciplined lens, the University of Washington's most recent study of Seattle's $15 minimum wage conveyed considerable insight.
Whether looking at the World Series of Poker or fast growing occupations, we can see that gender stereotypes can create costly decisions.
While it depends where you look and the industries you select, you can see that U.S. manufacturing is now experiencing a modest rebound.
High for the Swiss and low in Portugal, the average amount of money that we keep in our wallets for cash payments varies from country to country.
Although the bailout of the Greek economy just ended, doubts remain about their ability to sustain their long-term debt obligations.
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.