Chicken Little is an Increasingly Rare Bird

Chicken Little is an Increasingly Rare Bird

Photo by Artem Beliaikin on Unsplash Production of boiler chickens (those raised for their meat, not eggs) in the US...
EVs: Driving Change at Convenience Stores

EVs: Driving Change at Convenience Stores

Photo by John Cameron on Unsplash The United Nation’s (UN) recent report on the impending changes the world is facing...
Who’s In The Driver’s Seat: The Changing Dynamics of Auto Production

Who’s In The Driver’s Seat: The Changing Dynamics of Auto Production

Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash If you were shopping for a new car during the pandemic or even just...
China’s Population is Declining – Too hot, too cold, or just nice for its Economic Development?

China’s Population is Declining – Too hot, too cold, or just nice for its Economic Development?

On Tuesday, January 17th, 2023, China’s National Bureau of Statistics released the country’s population data to be 1.41175 billion in...
The Externalities Effect of Child Firearm Fatalities in the States

The Externalities Effect of Child Firearm Fatalities in the States

A study published on July 8th, 2022 by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) analyzed how gun fatalities among children and...
Why is Everything Getting So Expensive?

Why is Everything Getting So Expensive?

Prices on everyday products like groceries and diapers have increased dramatically in the last couple of years, with inflation often...
Understanding the U.S. Labor Market – A January 2023 Snapshot

Understanding the U.S. Labor Market – A January 2023 Snapshot

Photo by Luis Melendez on Unsplash According to the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) website, April 2020 recorded the highest...
The New Economics of Car Production

The New Economics of Car Production

Photo by Dan Dennis on Unsplash Engineers working at some of American car maker Ford’s facilities in Europe might be...
Looming Water Crisis – What can YOU do to Conserve Water?

Looming Water Crisis – What can YOU do to Conserve Water?

www.britannica.com Looking at the droplet in the infographic, only 2.6% of the world’s water supply is fresh water, while the...
U.K. Economy Three Years after Brexit

U.K. Economy Three Years after Brexit

Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash Brexit is the term used to mark the event when the United Kingdom (U.K.)...

Is Now the Time to Buy an Electric Car?

Electric vehicles or EVs as they’re often called, have been around for a while, but for many people, the economics of owning an EV haven’t made sense. Now though, with prices at the pump reaching new highs, you might be asking whether it’s finally time…

Podcast: Inflation is back–but for how long?

Mike Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss the latest wave of inflation, and what might happen next in this podcast. Today, we’re going to be talking about inflation.  We recorded this podcast in the middle of February 2022, right after the February consumer price report from…

Big Techs with Antitrust Concerns

The CNBC video provides a succinct summary of why and how antitrust laws were enacted by the U. S. Congress to promote fair competition and to protect consumers from predatory monopolistic business practices. The main antitrust laws are the Sherman Act of 1890, the Clayton…

Time to Curb Inflation Following the Phillips Curve?

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the all items Consumer Price Index rose 7.5% for the 12 months ending January 2022 – the largest 12-month increase since the period ending February 1982. The food and energy indexes alone accounted for an increase of 7%…

Competing Solutions to a Lack of Competition

Over the last decade prices in the US for insulin has more than tripled, and is more than ten times the average price in other countries. More than 37 million people in the US have diabetes and many rely on the biologic medication to stay…