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Behavioral economists can explain why are lured into buying a year's subscription for movie watching and other media that we barely use.
With postal service innovation a basic problem, the U.S. Postal System is ranked lower than France, Japan, Poland, and nine other countries.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from the mom penalty and the Brexit impact to moving decisions.
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.
Seeing people leave New Jersey, New York, and Illinois, we can start to ask if interstate migration is caused by high taxes.
Economic forecasting can frequently be inaccurate because of changing numbers and human bias or, as Yogi Berra reputedly said, "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."
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.