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…
What Would John Maynard Keynes Have Said About Stimulus Spending?
To the Great Depression and the Great Recession, we can now add coronavirus stimulus spending as examples of John Maynard Keynes’s philosophy.
Everything We Need to Know About Global Economic Risk
Concerned with a shift away from traditional multilateral institutions and free trade, the World Economic Forum identifies our global economic risk.
Why It’s Tough to Make Stock Market Predictions
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.
Where the Federal Deficit Can Fool Us
At $1 trillion, the ballooning U.S. deficit can be understood as a number, as a proportion of the budget, and the reason we owe China so much money.
How We Primed the Pump
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.
Weekly Roundup: From Raisins to BBQ
Our everyday economics includes property rights, sovereign debt, default,, externalities, regulation, Pigovian taxes, incentive, state taxes, and oligopoly.
Is the Raisin Reserve “Unraisonable”?
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.