Managerial Econ - Economy

Managerial Econ: Gig Work as Entrprenerial Training

There can be many hurdles to becoming an entrepreneur, particularly for those without a background in business startups. New findings from D...

Managerial Econ: Economist points finger at Environmentalists and NIMBYs in aftermath of LA fires

The Economist does: Strict regulations in LA require new homes to be fire-resistant, but most homes are not new. NIMBYism and convoluted e...

Managerial Econ: CA gov prevents voluntary wealth-creating transactions

From REASON : On January 7, Newsom issued a state of emergency as fires spread in Los Angeles County. On Tuesday, Newsom signed Executive O...

Managerial Econ: High US interest rates strengthen dollar, weaken Asian equities

Economist : Jan 13, 2025 The dollar reached a two-year high against a basket of major currencies, bolstered by a strong jobs report, relea...

Managerial Econ: Is ESG investing illegal? In TX it is.

Breaking : ...US District Judge Reed O’Connor found that the airline breached its fiduciary duty ... by prioritizing ESG considerations ov...

Managerial Econ: Price controls destroy wealth: California Fire Insurance

Noah Smith via Marginal Revolution , and  Kim Mai Cutler .  The CA insurance regulator is elected, and is reluctant to allow higher rat...

Managerial Econ: Mortgage debt is rising, but lending standards are strong

From CalculatedRisk : The bottom line is there will not be a huge wave of distressed sales as happened following the housing bubble. Most ho...

Managerial Econ: The capitalist revolution Africa needs

Economist : In the coming years Africa will become more important than at any time in the modern era. Over the next decade its share of the...

Managerial Econ: Leftys get screwed again

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Managerial Econ: Coordinating on Spring Break

This year, the local school district (AISD) and community college (TCC) have shifted their Spring breaks from my university’s (UTA) second w...

Managerial Econ: Cost of bad regulation is 30%

From the Grumpy Economist : Even 30% is a lot. That’s a decade of 3% extra growth. That’s the difference between the US and most of Europ...

Managerial Econ: But for dumb regulation, we would have cheap Nuclear Power and Supersonic planes

From the Grumpy Economist : In the 1960s, nuclear was supposed to bring the amazing post-scarcity Jetsons future. It could have brought the...

Managerial Econ: Market Reactions to Killing the Kroger - Albertsons Deal

On 10 Dec. 2024, Kroger’s proposed $25 billion merger with Albertsons was blocked in rulings that the largest merger in US supermarket histo...

Managerial Econ: Acquired Podcast: Nvidia 3

Listening to the Acquired Podcast about Nvidia (part 3) Interesting history linking the development of machine learning, specifically image...

Managerial Econ: Acquired Podcast: Costco

Listening to the Aquired podcast about Costco .  Lots of interesting history and economics in it.   The start of discount retailing by figur...

Managerial Econ: Advice for the new administration: Reform Social Security

CATO :   Social Security ... operates like a  Ponzi scheme : Paying benefits promised to earlier generations depends on new revenues from ...

Managerial Econ: NIMBY zoning is killing us

From The Studies Show : How much is [restrictive zoning] costing the US economy as a whole? A famous paper (Hsieh and Moretti, 2019) estima...

Managerial Econ: Russian ruble is falling, but no one is buying its exports

From MarginalRevolution : ...I also strongly disagree with those who say that cheaper ruble is “good” for exporters and the budget. Expo...

Managerial Econ: Advice to the New FTC Leadership

Here is the most important part ( link ):   II. Promote Innovation  Since 2010, the U.S. economy has grown at a real rate of 1.74% per capit...

Managerial Econ: More on Business Dynamism

Over at the Geek Way , Andrew McAfee has created a startling visualization related to entrepreneurship in the US and EU. The Draghi Report ...

Managerial Econ: Business Dynamism

Visual Capitalist has a nice graphic that indicates the level of dynamism across industries in the US economy. An industry is not competiti...

Managerial Econ: Returns to Master's degrees

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Managerial Econ: Responding to Professional Disruption

In Chapter 24 on " The Luddites ," The Industrial Revolution Podcast recounts an episode when entrepreneur John Bell began producing textil...

Managerial Econ: How the Trump Whale made money betting on prediction markets

WSJ : Polymarket’s remarkable liquidity explains Théo, the Polymarket whale [who made $85 million]. Théo behaved as one would expect of a...

Managerial Econ: Does inequality make us rich?

Economist : America ranks as the most unequal big rich-world country (see chart). Combined with lower average incomes elsewhere, the pay ...

Managerial Econ: Standardization and Specialization

I am a couple dozen episodes in on Dave Broker's Industrial Revolutions Podcast and cam across this tidbit from chapter 14. But what Whitwo...

Managerial Econ: The NFL sends Mediocre Teams to Play in Europe

The NFL schedules a handful of games each season to be played in Europe, London and Munich this year. With plans to expand the program to Af...

Managerial Econ: When will RoboTaxis become Profitable?

An interesting article in the WSJ reports on the growing acceptance of autonomous vehicles being used for ride hailing. The dominant platfo...

Managerial Econ: Correlation is not causation: birth weight determines mortality, not the animus of white physicians

Economist :  CORRELATION: “when Black newborns are cared for by Black physicians, the mortality penalty they suffer, as compared with White...

Managerial Econ: Who regulates the regulators?

From REASON : For decades, the California Coastal Commission has had near-unchecked authority to regulate development along the state's 860...

Managerial Econ: The hidden cost of regulatory uncertainty

Innovation drives growth and at our current growth rate of 2%, US income doubles in 36 years. In contrast, EU income doubles in 108 years. ...

Managerial Econ: Failures ==> Learning ==> Success

Economist: ...SpaceX’s existing Falcon 9 rockets had a similar string of spectacular failures (it even released a blooper reel). But there...

Managerial Econ: Why has US left other rich economies in the dust?

Economist : On a per-person basis, American economic output is now about 40% higher than in western Europe and Canada, and 60% higher than i...

Managerial Econ: What happens when you cut the supply of Northwestern football by 75%?

WSJ : Price goes up Ryan Field, where Northwestern played until this season, sat over 47,000 fans—nearly four times as many as the [tempor...

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Managerial Econ: Bargaining with Longshoremen

How much bargaining power did the two sides have in the recent dock workers' strike?  For shippers, what is the cost of a one day delay in c...

Managerial Econ: Colocating Complements

Providers of complementary services can increase demand by reducing the search costs of shared customers. Perhaps colocation will suffice ...

Managerial Econ: New interactive games to teach supply, demand, and pollution, a "negative externality"

From MarginalRevolution.com: MRU videos are free for anyone’s use anytime, anywhere and don’t forget there are also two new econ-practice ga...

Managerial Econ: Frank Zappa on Project Selection

Managerial Econ: Why vertical merger challenges are hard to win

In 2016, the Antitrust Division of the US Dept of Justice (DOJ) challenged the vertical merger of Time Warner (movies) and ATT which owned D...