Posts filed under: Economics
Last Friday, around 1200 men lost their jobs in an annual ritual layoff. They did nothing wrong. Instead, the organizations they worked for realized that they had better people doing...
Imagine for a moment that there was a book-mailing service. For a fee every month, the company will deliver a book to your home. After a reasonable amount of time...
Do tariffs work? If you’ve followed the current news, you’ll know that the answer is a resounding “no.” However, like many things in economics, the truth is not that simple....
Maybe you haven’t heard of Amazon HQ 2, but it’s a big deal. Amazon is currently choosing from a slate of 20 finalist cities. The winner will have Amazon’s second...
A while back I wrote a post about the price of pharmaceuticals, and how the US appears to be subsidizing the rest of the world. There was something regarding pharmaceutical...
Let’s talk about airline pricing. The other day I was about to hop on a flight on Alaska Airlines when the gate attendant announced that the airline had a new...
Maybe this will come as a surprise to you, but I’m really into architecture. For most of my life, I wanted to be an architect, right up until I took...
First, get offended. A company has done something that deeply, painfully offends you. Second, do something about it. Namely, stop purchasing the company’s products. But also post to social media,...
Buying medicine in America has great potential to put a person in a contemplative mood. The prices of medicine, especially for prescription medicines with no generic equivalent, can cost a...
You’ve probably heard the term “The Great Recession” used to describe the implosion of the housing bubble in 2007, which led to a worldwide financial crisis and years of economic...
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