The Dangerous Economist

The misery index is simply the inflation rate plus the unemployment rate. The graph below shows how it has changed since 1970. Notice it use...

Student are supposed to get vaccinated against certain diseases. But what if the parents don't take care of it? Make it costly for them ...

He has been charged with four counts of perjury and one of obstruction of justice following a four-year investigation into steroids. But wha...

I talk about the Clean Air Act of 1990 in class and how, like any other regulation, it decreases supply. Any regulation raises costs to prod...

The book is Shopping for God: How Christianity Went From in Your Heart to in Your Face by James Twitchell. You can read reviews of it here ...

If a prospective employer asks you if you're nice, if you get along with others, are you a team player, etc, you will, of course, say ye...

The first federal minimum wage was set in 1938 at $0.25 per hour. As of this past July, it went up to $5.85. It will go up to $6.55 next Jul...

It may not be as obvious as you would think. The CPI was 207.917 in August and 208.490 in September. The 208.49 means that what cost $100 in...

It seems like they work hard and don't want to show off too much. Here are the first two paragrahps from an article titled More U.S. mil...

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...