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Weekly Roundup
January 11, 2025
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from money to American made and Netflix.
January 2025 Friday’s e-links: Learning About the Future From NVIDIA
Uncategorized
January 10, 2025
How Tesla’s Carbon Credits Boost Its Bottom Line
Environment
January 10, 2025
What We’ve Learned About Money and Happiness
Behavioral Economics
January 9, 2025
Why McDonald’s Has Pricing Power
Prices
January 8, 2025
Elaine Schwartz - January 9, 2025
The recent death of Richard Easterlin takes us back to his benchmark 1974 study of money and happiness and the avalanche of responses.
How Parental Leave Changed at Netflix
Elaine Schwartz - January 7, 2025
How We Got a $12.98 American Made T-shirt
Elaine Schwartz - January 6, 2025
What Your Dog Says About You
Elaine Schwartz - January 5, 2025
Which New Year’s Resolutions Do We Keep?
Elaine Schwartz - January 2, 2025
Elaine Schwartz - December 5, 2024
Looking back to 2004 and looking ahead, the topic of EU expansion takes us to comparative advantage and growth.
What Your Baby Stroller Says About You
Elaine Schwartz - July 18, 2024
How Alexander Hamilton Gave Us Economic Independence
Elaine Schwartz - July 4, 2024
What a Captcha Costs Us
Elaine Schwartz - April 26, 2024
Why a Cruise Ship is Like a Model-T
Elaine Schwartz - April 23, 2024
Elaine Schwartz - November 15, 2024
Looking at cost and benefit in 316 urban areas, a recent study from the University of Pennsylvania suggests that rather than taking city streets for granted, we should ponder the alternatives.
How Nvidia Changed the Dow
Elaine Schwartz - November 12, 2024
What History Says About Tariffs
Elaine Schwartz - November 10, 2024
Disaster Economics
Elaine Schwartz - October 9, 2024
When a Mortgage Is Like a Hurricane
Elaine Schwartz - October 8, 2024
Elaine Schwartz - January 12, 2025
Misleadingly simple, almond tariffs' impacts become complicated when we see the ripple of responses and retaliations that they initiate.
How Tesla’s Carbon Credits Boost Its Bottom Line
Elaine Schwartz - January 10, 2025
Where Popeye Is a Scary Sailor Man
Elaine Schwartz - January 3, 2025
New Year’s Resolutions: The Top Ten Ways to Sound Like an Economist
Elaine Schwartz - January 1, 2025
Three Random (and Resounding) Numbers From 2024
Elaine Schwartz - December 30, 2024
econguest - September 25, 2024
While we will never forget the opening ceremony on the Seine, there was lots more to remember from the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Econlife Quiz: Trader Joe’s
econguest - June 10, 2024
Econlife Quiz: Barbie
econguest - November 26, 2023
Elaine Schwartz - January 3, 2025
Starting our New Year's e-links, I recommend a Bloomberg "Odd Lots" podcast that let me, as a new listener, locate the best from 2024.
December 2024 Friday’s e-links: Why the Chicken Came Before the Egg
Elaine Schwartz - December 27, 2024
December 2024 Friday’s e-links: The Year in 5 Charts
Elaine Schwartz - December 20, 2024
