Why Are Gas Prices Falling?
Anyone who has a car is breathing a sigh of relief this last week. After two years of increasing gas...
Peter Jacobsen
Who Really Needs a Definition of Recession?
Social media is ablaze with a dispute over whether the US economy is in a recession. The debate was prompted...
Why Hosting World Cup Soccer Games Is No Economic Score for Cities
Recently, news broke that Arrowhead Stadium will be one of the US cities hosting games of the FIFA Men’s World...
Federal plan to save local government jobs cost $800,000 per job each year
We’re finding out more every day about the true cost of Covid-19 policies. Economists Jeffrey Clemens, Philip G. Hoxie &...
Delta Paid Passengers $10,000 to Give Up Their Flight Seats. How One Economist Made It Possible
Delta Paid Passengers $10,000 to Give Up Their Flight Seats—How an Economist Made this Possible Delta Air Lines made headlines...
Student Debt Forgiveness Is Already Happening Because of the Payment “Freeze”
In March of 2020, Donald Trump paused federal student loan payments and “froze” interest accumulation in an effort to help...
The Boom-Bust Cycle is Not a Greed-Fear Cycle
If you ever find yourself on the business section of CNN’s website, you’ll notice a peculiar thing on the top...
What Swampletic’s Runescape Challenge Can Teach Us About Economics
I recently stumbled onto some of the most entertaining content I’ve seen on YouTube in a long time–Swampletics. Swampletics is...
Consumer Complaints Are Up 300% at Airlines. What’s Going On?
It seems like if you talk about traveling with friends lately, at least one of them has a story about...
The Economist Whose Theory Predicted Today’s Calls for Censorship in the 1970s
After Elon Musk’s offer to purchase Twitter was accepted, the Department of Homeland Security unveiled plans for a “disinformation” governance...
The Economic Theory That Explains Biden’s Response to the Baby Formula Shortage
Over the last month, president Biden invoked the Defense Production Act in an attempt to fix the formula shortage. In...
How Elon Musk Can Solve His Pseudonym Dilemma
Elon Musk’s recent Twitter bid has raised a lot of intrigue over the future of the platform. Musk, who on...
