Our economic news summary includes labor regulation and Uber, the GDP and streets, gasoline price fluctuation, food and inequality and markets and syrup.
Rockets, Feathers and Gasoline Prices
Gasoline prices rise faster than they fall because monopolistic competition provides retailers with some price control although their product is identical.
Weekly Roundup: From Desirable Currency to Rejected Coins
Our everyday economics includes gender gap, human capital, competition, regulation, opportunity cost, money supply, currency and conspicuous consumption.
What New Coke Could Teach Baseball
Baseball managers say that winning requires time consuming competitive strategies that conflict with the sport’s need to shorten game time and attract fans.
Weekly Roundup: From Playing Monopoly to Flying Drones
Our everyday economics includes BRICs & MINTs, supply, monopoly, tradeoffs, economic consensus, innovation, property rights, redistribution, fertility rate.
Monopoly Game Surprises
Celebrating an 80th anniversary, 80 French Monopoly sets will have real euros. About money, Monopoly has market lessons, especially if you change the rules.
Weekly Roundup: 6 Mysteries
Our everyday economic stories involve participation rates, human capital, signaling, ROI, money, price, austerity, personal income, monopoly and bubbles.
Weekly Roundup: From Potato Chips to Pregnancy
Our Posts Roundup Sunday 12.07.14 Innovative potato stories…more Monday 12.08.14 The pregnant UPS lady who sued her boss…more Tuesday 12.09.14 Measuring inflation can be tough…more Wednesday 12.10.14 Why Congress creates economic uncertainty…more Thursday 12.11.14 The ways that…
Dynamic Pricing: How To Lower Your Electric Bill
As monopolies, electric utilities have the pricing power that lets them offer dynamic pricing through smart meters but supply and demand will change slowly.
How to Own the Word How
The courts will decide intellectual property rights when they say whether Dov Seidman can trademark the word How and stop Chobani from using How Matters.