The Dangerous Economist

That is the title of the article. Go to Dim economy drives women to donate eggs for profit . Increases in "donations" may not be t...

The article on this is Retail crime grows with demand for discounts . So people want these good deals. Then organized crime comes in. Goods ...

The story was in today's New York Times magazine called The Anti-Bono . Her name is Dambisa Moyo and she has a book coming out this year...

The book is The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century By George Friedman. It was reviewed in the San Antonio Express-News recentl...

That is the title of an article about a very interesting new video system. Here is the link: When you watch these ads, the ads check you out...

Below is a repeat of last year's Valentine's day post. First there are a couple of new links: The first one is Kisses unleash chemic...

In some of my classes we read about how bad Zimbabwe's economy is doing. But apparently the dictatorial president Robert Mugabe is start...

To see the complete ranking, go the CIA World Factbook . Here is the top 10: 1 Liechtenstein $118,000 2 Qatar $101,000 3 Luxembourg $85,100 ...

Doing this can help you regain status after getting laid off. Go to The Sweet Payoff . Don't confuse this with "Conspicuous Consump...

College students are using Adderall and Ritalin to boost "cognitive function and enables [which] them to study for hours with full conc...

The Sunday New York Times magazine had a very good article about the problems facing the economy right now and how they might be solved call...

Go to Buckland Ends Free Salt & Sand Service . The town has been letting residents take salt and sand at no charge. They expected people...

It passed in the House of Representatives yesterday. It is 647 pages long. This New York Times article, Components of Stimulus Vary in Speed...

There is an article called Stimulus 101: What's in the Bills . Its give a summary of what has been proposed plus the pros and cons.

To find out why, go to Worker Tax Cut: Maybe Not so Immediate . This is really just another version of the post I had a few days ago on the ...

To read about this go to Job losses hitting men harder than women . Here are some key exerpts: "The economic crisis is hitting men much...

You probably know that we are in a recession. Unemployment is at 7.2%, the highest in 15 years. As my macro students will learn later this s...

To read about this go to Top Budget Travel Destinations for 2009: The best value hot spots for the New Year . But if people really believe t...

That is the finding of an interesting study. Click on Study: You Touch It, You Buy It to read about it. This exerpt gives the basic idea: ...