Several of my students wondered how fully cooked rotisserie chickens could be so much cheaper than fresh uncooked chickens. Since rotisserie chickens involve extra labor, additional energy use, and the cost of the broiler itself, shouldn’t they be more expensive? The reason they aren’t lies…
The coronavirus pandemic has caused the entire world to implement virtual options and the medical health industry is no exception. Telehealth services are virtual services provided by medical health professionals and allow long distance patient and clinician contact. During the coronavirus pandemic, telehealth services are…
Abstract: This video explores the race to develop a vaccine to protect against COVID-19. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been intense pressure to find a vaccine that will limit the spread of the disease. More than 160 companies from around the world…
DC street band, Spread Love, plays regularly on the corner of 15th St. and New York Ave, situated nicely in the heart of DC’s tourist district, near Lafayette Square and the White House. People walking past the band on their way to work or to…
Epic games, maker of the popular video game “Fortnite,” is suing Apple and Google for “anticompetitve conduct.” At the heart of their complaint are the fees charged by the companies for hosting the game in their app stores. Having the game in the app store…
In honor of the Tampa Bay Lightning’s 2020 Stanley Cup victory, Budweiser has announced it will produce a limited-release run of “Bud Lightning” bottles to be sold in the Tampa Bay area later this year. Budweiser has a history of producing cans and bottles that…
In this episode of the Econ Café 2020/21 podcast, textbook authors Michael Mandel and Sean Flynn explain the July 2020 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) report, and what it means for the economy and for economics students. This GDP report described the impact of the Covid…
In what is shaping up to be the next big standoff between the world’s two economic superpowers, China and the United States are laying the groundwork for what is likely to be a bitter fight. This time the issue is semiconductors, the technology that acts…