The Cost of the Squeegee Men

Through a cost and benefit approach to crime control, the limited money available for municipal spending can be spent most efficiently.

Weekly Roundup: From Height to Hamburgers

Our everyday economics includes behavioral economics, GDP, demand & supply, inflation, tradeoffs, markets, consumer spending, environment, and regulation.

How Congress Would Anger Alexander Hamilton

Whenever people try to limit the rights of owners, as with Alexander Hamilton and bondholders or now with the ART Act, there are market system tradeoffs.

Weekly Roundup: From Steak Patents to Marijuana Taxes

Our everyday economics includes behavioral economics, trade barriers, taxes, entitlements, externalities, intellectual property and industrialization.

What Your Walking Speed Tells Us

The externalities that result from industrialization and economic vitality include how fast we walk, our pace at work and our attitude about time.

Why the Social Security Crisis Has Begun

Caused by aging baby boomers, expanded criteria and the remnants of the great recession, SSDI entitlement spending is approaching insolvency.

Weekly Roundup: From Affluent Mates to Successful Names

Our everyday economics includes tradeoffs, deposit insurance, supply chain, bias, human capital, income inequality, marriage markets and Federal Reserve.

Self-Signaling by Standing in Line

Whether you stand in long lines to self-signal or you hire someone to do the wait for you, your decision reflects tradeoffs that relate to time.

Weekly Roundup: From Free Delivery to Expensive Coffee

Our everyday economics includes competition, progressive taxes, free trade, externalities, sunk cost, productivity, supply chain, incentives, & tradeoffs.

There’s No Such Thing as a Free Delivery

For consumers and retailers, decisions about delivery speed and price involve tradeoffs with each hoping to minimize the cost and maximize the purchase.