The Dangerous Economist

The article is Students fear recession will affect education . My second favorite economist is the guy who says: "If you save $4,000 a ...

There is an episode called "Margaritaville" which you can watch if you go to http://www.southparkstudios.com/ It is about the curr...

Try googling: "learn more from failure than success" and you get over 1,000 hits. But the New York Times Sunday business section h...

The first article is March Madness It Is, Economically by ANDREW ZIMBALIST. Does all the money from the NCAA basketball tournament help the...

Economist Mark Thoma gives a good overview of all the factors that came together to create the financial crisis with Who's the Villain i...

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, the Heroes of Capitalism blog has an entry on Arthur Guinness , founder of the Guinnes brewing company. ...

To read all about it, go to Prison contraband was booming trade , an article in today's Express-News. Guards smuggle in items for the pr...

To find out what 11 experts said last week in the NY Times go to When Will the Recession Be Over? . The experts include economics professors...

In my ECON 1301 class this week we read chapter 8 of the book The Economics of Public Issues . It seeems like a good idea to buy a slave and...

I gave a talk in 2007 at Pepperdine University called "Who Says Entrepreneurs Are Heroes?" You can watch it if you click here . It...

To see the list of the most profitable industries in the last 12 months, go to Sageworks . Here is the list. Notice that some of them are me...

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...