A discussion of class in America in the 21st Century through analysis of differential financial behavior as...
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Despite its recent expansion, the BRICS ‘alliance’ is nothing more than vaporware. Claims of the death of...
I keep seeing this meme from social conservatives, and it is so wrong-headed it makes me grind...
Friendly control of Taiwan is a core national security interest for the United States, and not just...
Not quite a year into the Biden Presidency, and pundits and commentators are trying to hang unliftable...
How to handle the economics of inflation in video games.
Economist and OT contributor Jericho Hill draws on working in pro wrestling to explain media manipulation, political...
A twist on the "we can't hire anyone" headlines: Some workers are not moving out of the...
Those who pretend scarcity doesn’t exist are playing you. Politicians utilize this one, but academics and journalists...
Queue panic, articles and televised pundits loudly banging the inflation worries drum. However, there are reasons...
Do generous welfare programs attract immigrants? A study from Denmark.
Sometimes, economics is cold and hard, all moral objections notwithstanding.
The key to successful government policy is through perverse incentive mitigation, usually through the Law of Unintended...
Video games, much like action figures, are a fascinating example to look at for the application of...
Scarcity ties into a couple topics that few really understand. The biggest of these is the Accounting...
Facing "the worst economic crisis since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939," the ruling...
The action figure market is one of the best case studies in the economic concept of value....
The virus gives us the opportunity to remake the economy. Some people are salivating at the prospect.
I believe we are seeing Sears happening on a larger scale with the United States. So why...
The Coronavirus Pandemic will change the world in many ways. We just don’t know how it will...
