Winning at Northwestern
If you’re like many football fans, nothing beats sitting in the stands cheering the hometeam. Indeed, in the fall, many college towns come alive as alumni and others descend onfootball…
Taylor Swift Fans See Red
Photo by Omid Armin on Unsplash The intersection of supply and demand is perhaps one of the most basic elements of economic theory, and for disappointed Swifties, now likely a…
World Population hits EIGHT Billion!
On Tuesday, November 15th, 2022, the United Nations announced that we have 8 billion people on our beautiful planet Earth! Here are nine key messages from the UN’s World Population…
Addressing the Micro-Chip Shortage Nationwide
Image by Jose Conejo Saenz from Pixabay The COVID-19 pandemic from mid-March 2020 caused massive lockdown of chip producing companies for months. And now, two and a half years later,…
Addressing Housing Crisis using Federal Funding in Washington D.C.
Image by David Mark from Pixabay The shutdown of the U.S. economy during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March 2020 brought about loss of income especially for workers…
Out of toilet paper? …Again!
Shelves emptied of toilet paper, due to panic buying The wholesaler company, Costco, started limiting the number of bundled toilet paper-rolls each membership cardholder could buy per visit recently, in…
Impact of COVID-19 in the Car Industry
Car Doors Industry Factory Store Kelly Blue Book reported that Americans purchased a new car in July 2021 for an average of $42,736 versus $39,513 in July 2020. One of…
Is a Win for England a Win For The Economy?
Following its heartbreaking loss to Italy in the UEFA Euro 2020 soccer finals, devastated England fans went home to dream about a next year, while jubilant Italy fans continued to…
COVID-19 and the 2020 Summer Camp Season
Currently, they are more than 14,000 summer camps across the United States. States all over the nation are preparing to slowly open their economies. The American Camp Association states that…
Marker: “What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage”
Why is it so difficult to find toilet paper amidst the COVID-19 crisis? Conventional wisdom is that people have been irrationally hoarding, but a more likely explanation involves the ways…