Whether ranking baseball team fans or a country’s unemployment and inflation rates, misery indexes can tell us about people’s happiness.…
Macroeconomics
The study of how the economy behaves as a whole as well as economy-wide phenomena.
Six Handy Facts to Know on Tax Day
On this tax day, let’s look at six handy tax facts that range from how to un-pay a tax, to the best tax act, to how U.S. taxes compare with Europe’s.…
Banking on Marijuana
Reflected by duffle bags filled with cash, marijuana’s financial services problems demonstrate why we need banks and other financial intermediaries.…
The Market Value of a College Sports Program
In addition to March Madness brackets, we could have used a college sports program valuation to rank the market value of each team.…
Why It’s Now the Pits For Avocados
Although Fresh Direct did not really eliminate the avadcado pit, they could more accurately tell us that they were increasing avocado prices.…
The Inconspicuous Consumption That Shouts Your Wealth
The average American has access to the types of consumer goods that only the wealthy used to buy. We can purchase a pricey iPhone or watch Netflix on a massive home TV screen. We eat steak, enjoy ahi …
A New Product That Pays For College
Like other new goods and services that people invent, the Income Sharing Agreement (ISA) is a financial innovation that pays for college tuition.…
Where a Sugary Drink Tax Won’t Work
Looking at the Philadelphia sugary drinks tax, we would find it did not accomplish many of its goals in three major categories.…
A Surprising Political Center
Although some find it tough to find a constantly shifting political center and others say there might not be one, we all care about the same issues.…
What You Might Not Know About Cardboard Boxes
Easy to ignore, the quantity of cardboard boxes that we demand has soared because of the incentives created by Amazon Prime.…