Starting with Santa currency, states saying Christmas is an official holiday, and Christmas trees, in the 19th century holiday spending on Christmas grew.
What We Know About Santa’s Salary
Although BLS data indicates what Santa’s salary could be, because it is unpaid work and comes from the North Pole, it is excluded from the GDP.
How Fast Fashion Affects Our Brain
Through the pleasure and pain that fast fashion shopping creates in our brains, we can see why the business model is good for monopolistic competition.
What the Twelve Days of Christmas Will Cost You
The PNC Christmas Price Index might be an accurate inflation calculator because it includes the price of labor, commodities, services and goods.
Why Apple Should Not Increase Its Tax Bill
Based on a tax code that was made for an industrial age, current corporate taxes that multinationals like Apple could owe need to reflect a digital world.
Where to Find the Biggest Gender Gap
Through worldwide gender gap indicators, we can see that Iceland can optimize productivity and human capital through a small gender gap.
Weekly Roundup: From Smart Cars to Dumb Laws
This week’s economic news summary includes work week tradeoffs in France, new labor laws for the gig economy, and why price tags are disappearing.
What to Call an Uber Driver
Neither an employee nor an independent contractor for whom the law has protections and obligations, the worker in the gig economy needs legal recognition.
How Star Wars Makes So Much Money
Combining Disney’s market power as an oligopoly with Star Wars legendary franchise, you wind up with massive Star Wars revenue.
Where Your Price Depends On Your Timing
Dynamic pricing at Amazon, the Indianapolis Zoo and a Dallas toll road displays how price influences buyer and seller behavior.
