This week’s stories on everyday economics include baby boomer dependency ratios, disposable income, human capital, the price system, the money supply and the iPhone 6 supply chain.
Our weekly roundup includes stories from everyday economics that relate to the market, the minimum wage, the price system and productivity & human capital.
In the Great Recession (Bush) and the Panic of 1907 (Roosevelt), we saw that the U.S. President need not appear to be running monetary and fiscal policy.
Like athletes use music before competing, so too can we energize our human capital at work with music that empowers us physiologically and psychologically.
Our Sunday chart of the week Just some human capital facts today… Showing the proportion of people from a college major that go to a certain kind of job, the following graphics connect college majors with employment groups. The original interactive graphics…
Our (occasional) Monday gender issue focus: Yesterday, at the Nantucket Film Festival, I watched the HBO documentary, The Case Against 8. Documenting the court battle against California’s Proposition 8, the film introduced me to a memorable group of people that included 2 same-sex couples who wanted…
Our Monday gender issue focus Equipped with a smart phone, a tablet and her distinctively shapely proportions, pink-clad Entrepreneur Barbie just arrived. Because Barbie reflects what has become culturally acceptable, I guess we should applaud her newest incarnation. In 1959, Barbie…
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