The Dangerous Economist

See School Is Expensive. Is It Worth It? For your kids, yes—at least assuming they graduate. But the author of ‘The Case Against Education’...

A few weeks ago, one of my classes read a chapter called "The Graying of America" in the book T he Economics of Public Issues . It...

By Nicholas Kristof of The NY Times . Excerpts: "2017 was probably the very best year in the long history of humanity. A smaller...

This was a commercial back in 1986. It paints a bleak picture of America in the future, presumably caused by the growing national debt ($2...

By Connor Waldoch of Medium . Disney wants to buy Fox. This week in my micro classes we are talking about mergers and when the government ...

See Ozzy Osbourne Brings Antitrust Lawsuit Against AEG for Tying London and L.A. Venues by Eriq Gardner of The Hollywood Reporter. Excerpt...

We covered international trade in my micro class recently and the text book has something about this in that chapter. To get a handle on t...

Disinflation is when the inflation rate falls. Prices rise each year or time period, but the rate of increase falls. The table below shows t...

From news4sanantonio . Excerpts: "San Antonio has the highest credit card debt burden in the U.S., according to a new CreditCards.co...

By Melissa Mittelman of Bloomberg . In the book The Economics of Macro Issues, they mention that Russia has many resources but its per ca...

The first one is Researchers at AAAS Annual Meeting Explore the Science of Kissing . The following quote gives you an idea of what it is al...

(Note: For student just beginning this week click here to read something about me). One weakness of the unemployment rate is that if peo...