The Dangerous Economist

Retail companies risk losing control of the online shopping experience By Jinjoo Lee of The WSJ . Excerpts: "ChatGPT’s Instant Checkout...

People from cultures that emphasize productive habits tend to advance. The reverse is also true By Roland Fryer . He is a Harvard economics ...

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I have posted several items about Mark Twain on economics. Those are listed below.  This is the title of an article that was published recen...

By Alberto Cavallo, Paola Llamas & Franco Vazquez .  " Abstract   We use high-frequency retail microdata to measure the short-run ...

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By Deborah Acosta and Rebecca Picciotto of The WSJ . Excerpts: "Social media is spreading the word that Atlanta is flush with empty hi...

Here are the changes in the seasonally adjusted CPI each of the last six months:  April 0.2209% May  0.0810% June 0.2870% July 0.1966% Aug 0...