Our economic news summary includes underutilizing female labor, delayed gratification, pricing medical care, interstate migration & assessing labor markets.
The Most Popular States
While job related reasons like unemployment and a new job are cited as likely reasons for interstate migration, marriage and taxes also matter.
Weekly Roundup: From Uber Drivers to Gasoline Prices
Our economic news summary includes labor regulation and Uber, the GDP and streets, gasoline price fluctuation, food and inequality and markets and syrup.
On The Street Where You Live
While economic development can be measured through a history of GDP data, the real yardstick is the history of one street.
Weekly Roundup: From Traffic Congestion to Job Evaluation
Our everyday economics includes central planning, unintended consequences, comparative advantage, transportation infrastructure, cost & developing nations.
The Deal That a Chinese Firm Could Not Refuse
Displaying a shift in comparative advantage, some Chinese textile manufacturers are locating their factories the the U.S. rather than China.
Weekly Roundup: From Robot Servers to Shrimp Farmers
Our everyday economics includes wages, externalities, productivity, income, tradeoff, taxes, fiscal policy, gender, human capital and comparative advantage.
The Reason for Endless Shrimp
Aquaculture created the comparative advantage that led to shrimp mass production and global trade that diminished the domestic shrimp industry.
Weekly Roundup: From Slicing Bread to Saving Honeybees
Our everyday economics includes behavioral economics, commitment devices, environment, supply, regulation, free trade, gender issues and the minimum wage.
How the Trans-Pacific Partnership is About New Balance and Nike
Looking at tires, fashion and NAFTA, we can see the lost jobs opposition to free trade and the pro free trade response.