COVID-19

Is the Dollar Losing Its Luster? Coronavirus Proved Forecasters Wrong.

Veronica Horton
23 September 2020

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…

Podcast – COVID Recession Versus the Great Depression

Michael Mandel
21 September 2020

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…

Concerns Over Mail-In Voting and Election Fraud

Bradley Schiller
16 September 2020

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…

Airlines Ease Fees in Effort to Attract Travelers

NickelsMcHughMcHugh
10 September 2020

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.,…

1.4 Million Jobs Added in August

Audrieanna Burgin
4 September 2020

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…

Why RV Sales Are Surging

Audrieanna Burgin
1 September 2020

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…

Unemployment Claims Surpass 1 Million Once Again

NickelsMcHughMcHugh
27 August 2020

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…

U.S. Economy Contracted By More than 32 Percent

NickelsMcHughMcHugh
7 August 2020

From April to June 2020, the U.S. GDP plummeted at an annual rate of 32.9 percent, the worst drop on record. As businesses closed across the country due to the pandemic, the U.S. fell into a recession that wiped out…

Nearly 73,000 Businesses Have Closed Permanently

NickelsMcHughMcHugh
31 July 2020

According to data from Yelp, more than 55 percent of the 132,500 businesses listed on the site that closed during the pandemic will remain shuttered permanently. Although government relief bought some companies time, businesses that are now closed will likely…

Chicken Little is an Increasingly Rare Bird

EVs: Driving Change at Convenience Stores

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

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

The Externalities Effect of Child Firearm Fatalities in the States

Why is Everything Getting So Expensive?

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

The New Economics of Car Production

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

U.K. Economy Three Years after Brexit