The Wall Street Journal tells us that women’s spending is up. Let’s take a look. Women’s Spending Sweden According to the Financial Times, the increase in restaurant and hotel prices temporarily boosted Sweden’s inflation rate even before Beyoncé arrived. Called…
The long term increase of the S&P 500 and the Dow Industrials misleadingly entices investors to believe that it’s easy to make stock market predictions.
When President Trump refers to priming the pump, we can think of the Great Depression, the Great Recession and deficit spending that can fuel the economy.
Our everyday economics includes property rights, sovereign debt, default,, externalities, regulation, Pigovian taxes, incentive, state taxes, and oligopoly.
The Supreme Court is deciding if the USDA can affect raisin grower property rights though a raisin reserve that mandates crop surrender to prop up price.
Our Econlife roundup for the week 7.14.14 An island without traffic lights displays the benefits of Adam Smith’s laissez-faire…more 7.15.14 Why David Ricardo would approve of where your sneakers were made…more 7.16.14 John Maynard Keynes could say why you’ll get less Social…
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