What Brexit Will Do to the EU Budget

About more than the U.K., Brexit also creates EU budget problems because of the 10 to 12 billion euros that the British will no longer give annually.

The One Thing We Should Know About Making Sneakers

With consumers expecting faster product cycles, Adidas is experimenting with a new supply chain that accelerates sneaker production.

What Economists Say About Roller Coasters

In a top ten list of roller coaster economics, we can include everything from the cost of a kidney stone to world trade and queueing.

How to Know If You Are a Millennial

Using a lens that divides us by generations, we can look more closely at Millennial characteristics to see how they differ from other age groups.

How a Steel Tariff Creates a Lobster Trap

As Canadian fisheries enjoy more business because a trade deal lowered the price of lobster exports, Maine’s fisherman are suffering from lower sales.

The Mystery of the STEM Paradox

Identifying the countries where women are more likely to select STEM (science, technology, engineering, math), scholars had some surprises.

Weekly Economic News Roundup: From When You Sleep to Where You Shop

Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from supermarket aisles and paper jams to a toilet paper shortage.

Four Fantastic Charts That Tell What We Need to Know About the Plastic Problem

Store by store, through one aisle that has 700 items, the Dutch supermarket chain Ekoplaza will support sustainability with plastics-free grocery shopping.

What You Might Not Know About a Toilet Paper Shortage

For insight about why Taiwan’s toilet paper shortage has created a panic, we just need to look at changes in supply and demand.

What a Strawberry and a Chicken Say About Free Trade

More than governments negotiating agreements, free trade is about the variety of strawberries, chickens, pickup trucks and pencils that we can buy.