In this episode of the Econ Café 2020/21 podcast, we talk with Martha Field, co-author of Environmental Economics: An Introduction, about the pandemic’s impact on the environment. Martha described how we effectively have been part of an expansive, unplanned experiment. The COVID lockdown led to a…
This video explores the role of the U.S. dollar in the international monetarysystem and the prospects for its future role in the global economy. Since 1944, the U.S.dollar has been the most important currency in the world, the currency of choice forforeign transaction, a less…
The pandemic has plunged the economy into a COVID Recession. In this episode of the Econ Café 2020/21 podcast, Mike Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss why the COVID Recession is different from the Great Depression of 1929, and how government policy has changed since then.…
What’s all the fuss about mail-in voting? President Trump has repeatedly warned that mail-in voting is too inefficient and ridden with fraud to be trusted. But there is little evidence to back up that charge. Absentee ballots came into use during the Civil War to…
With Labor Day weekend come and gone, airlines have entered the period of the year where business travelers usually make up the bulk of their flights rather than tourists. But as the pandemic continues to disrupt life throughout the U.S., almost nothing is proceeding like…
Over 20 million jobs have been lost since the coronavirus pandemic began to impact the United States in early March. In March, a record 6.9 million people filed for unemployment assistance, the highest number of unemployment claims ever recorded in United States history. As our…
Americans are finding new ways to travel amid lockdowns and social distancing requirements. The need to travel while safely social distancing has drastically increased sales for RVs. A recreational vehicle, RV, is considered a motor vehicle that includes accommodating living quarters. The living quarters allow…
For nearly every week since March, millions of Americans have filed for unemployment benefits as the economy continues to struggle with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. And last week was no exception: once again more than 1 million people filed for unemployment for the…
