The Return of Drive-in Theater
With social distancing rules preventing mass gatherings, many movie theaters around the country have been going out of business. The movie screening industry, however, is finding a creative way to…
Econ Everyday Classic: There’s Pea in My Coffee!
Due to a combination of increased global demand and poor harvests, coffee prices in 2011 rose some 69% to reach its highest price in over three decades. As a result,…
Women Account for 55 Percent of Coronavirus Job Losses
Last month, 20.5 million people lost their jobs, sending the unemployment rate skyrocketing to 14.7 percent. Economists predict that the actual jobless rate could be even worse when factoring in…
Stadiums Experiment with Lowering Food and Beverage Prices
The Tampa Bay Lightning announced they would be lowering prices on food and drink options in Amelie Arena for the 2020 season. Prices would be reduced by an average of…
CNN: “Why Walmart is seeing increased sales for tops, but not bottoms during the coronavirus crisis”
As more people engage in “teleworking” from home due to being on lockdown due to COVID-19, sales of tops have increased – since that’s all that shows on the webcam.…
Is Debt a Sin?
In the recent world bank report published in the first week of January, the Washington D.C.-based group said there had been four waves of government debt accumulation over the last…
What Exactly is the Function of the FX Market? A $6 Trillion Per Day Questions
“I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.” Spike Lee According to the recent series of reports published by the…