The Dangerous Economist

Maybe you heard that if a player stole a base in the World Series, Taco Bell would give away a free taco to anyone who wanted one on Tuesda...

With revenue from the sales of recordings down in recent years, rock stars are looking for other ways to make money. Sales of CDs are down b...

Seems hard to believe. But an experiment suggests it. The article is Chimps choose more rationally than humans . My student BRUNO MEJIA sent...

When economists use the term "moral hazard" they mean the fact that when people buy insurance, they might not be as careful as the...

Lobbyists in Washington are very busy and their time is valuable. So they don't want to wait in line to get a good seat at a Congression...

The New York Times had an articled titled Putting Money on the Table on Sept. 23. It seems that problems arise when a women makes alot mor...

That's the title of an article from Forbes, which you can read here . It tells us which jobs are expected grow faster in number than ave...

The San Antonio Express-News had an article on this in today's paper called More jobs, higher pay in years after NAFTA . I highly reco...

It seems that college students are inundated with credit card offers. Some of these cards have fine print which show, for example, that if y...

How could anyone not like hybrid cars? They use less gas so there is less pollution and we conserve on a scarce resource. But they are so qu...

There is an interesting article by Marcy Gordon of the Associated Press called Student loans sow seeds of economic ills . The amount of mone...

The market closed over 14,000 today. If you had invested in the market about 5 years ago, you would have earned a compound annual rate of r...

The band Radiohead is trying an experiment to let you pay whatever you want for the digital version of their latest album. Will this work? O...

A September 23 article in the Boston Globe by Drake Bennett called Bad sports: Why people cheat when they don't have to . He mentions s...

An article called A Green Revolution for Your Budget , gives the thoughts of Colin Beavan on how to save money and help the environment at t...

Maybe you have seen the Chevy commercial with John "Cougar" Mellencamp singing. One of the lines in the song is "the dream is...

There is a theory called "the political business cycle" that posits that the party in the White House will try to get a little ext...

The New York Times had a review of the book Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart by Ian Ayres. The basic id...

Sounds crazy, but a Russian Governor thinks that it is a good idea. To fight a dwindling population married couples are given time off from ...

The San Antonio Express News had an article on the front page yesterday called It's down to the wire for bird lovers to make a bid to h...