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Predictable and surprising, G20 facts about the group's countries and last week's meetings show how we remain interconnected.
Making financial decisions, we might take more or less risk because of the color of the print in our documents and charts.
Linking economics, current events and history, our weekly economic news roundup includes Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, monopolies and baguette regulation.
By comparing manufacturing and fracking communities, economists are trying to figure out why the number of single parents is soaring.
Seeing the impact of French baguette deregulation, we can look back at the days when government guaranteed Paris's bread supply.
Hit by trade shock from China, U.S. communities that experience factory layoffs and closings will also see an impact on marriage rates.
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.