The Dangerous Economist

See Mortgage Tax Break Said to Trickle Up by Nick Timiraos of the WSJ.Excerpts: "Federal tax benefits for homeowners primarily help ...

In Real Estate, Looks Can Sell: Attractive agents both list and sell homes for more money than average-looking agents, say researchers study...

See The Magic Number That Could Fix America’s Weight Problem by Dan Kloeffler of ABC/Yahoo News. "First, the average American male w...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has records going back to 1913. See CPI Detailed Report: Data for January 2014 . It is a PDF file and you nee...

This is adjusted for inflation (using 2009 dollars). The second graph is GDP divided by number of people in the labor force (that starts in ...

Click here to read the AP story by Hope Yen . Excerpts: "Young adults with just a high-school diploma earned 62 percent of the typic...

Below is a repeat of last year's Valentine's day post. I am not sure if the links are still working: The first one is Researchers ...

It was printed Feb. 1. Here is the link: False choice to separate work and passion . In the print edition it was titled "Passion not an...

The Navajo Nation. See Navajos Vote to Try Junk-Food Tax in Fight Against Obesity by Ana Campoy of The Wall Street Journal . This week tw...

See Love & Loans: The Effect of Beauty and Personal Characteristics in Credit Markets by Enrichetta Ravina of Columbia University (this...

Welcome to any new students. I usually post something three times a week. The next post should be next Wed. The entries usually have somethi...

We usually assume that firms must collect an excise tax. Then we shift the supply curve up by the amount of the tax to illustrate the effect...

That is the title of an article by David R. Borker who teaches at Manhattanville College. It was published in the American Journal of Busine...

In an episode of the TV show from 1963, Dickens came visited Virginia City and discovered his copyrights were being violated. So he proteste...

This is from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. Click here to go the site 2013-12-11: 76.248 Index March 1973=100 ...