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Managerial Econ
25.06.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOFPggYsKfc
22.06.2025
In 2008, 65% of skiers at Vail Resorts bought single-day lift tickets. Today, 75% of their customers purchase season passes, committing thou...
19.06.2025
Probability Event 66% US Military action against Iran by July? 59% Khameni out as Supreme Leade...
15.06.2025
Unionized plants have worse incentive alignment: 26% less likely to offer performance-based bonuses. 11% less likely to promote based...
13.06.2025
Economic Analysis of Business Practice
10.06.2025
President Trump must have read Chapter Two: Voluntary Transactions create wealth by moving assets to higher-valued uses; Taxes, pri...
08.06.2025
The Free Press : ...I spent two and a half years obtaining permits, navigating a labyrinthine zoning department and paying for not only arc...
06.06.2025
From the FreePress : ...Five years ago, ...police activity and staffing fell in big cities (where most of the crime is), as demoralized co...
31.05.2025
WSJ : U.S. natural gas futures were down for a third straight session as low weather-driven demand looks set to last into the first days of ...
WSJ: The Real Story of the ‘China Shock’ The jobs harm was largely local and temporary, while overall jobs and consumer welfare increased. ...
27.05.2025
From Bastiat's Window : The answer is right out of Chapter 1, "incentive alignment." ...the key to that success (versus the Soviets’ 75-ye...
21.05.2025
Someone at the WSJ read Why the U.S. Produces More Unicorns than the EU Limited Presence of Major Tech Firms : Apple's market cap > ent...
18.05.2025
NYTimes : Ella Stapleton said she was surprised to find that a professor had used ChatGPT to assemble course materials. “He’s telling us no...
The United States has produced about twice as many unicorns (private startups valued at $1B+) as China and more than four times as many as...
17.05.2025
FreePress Article : AI Will Change What It Is to Be Human. Are We Ready? ...If you raise your children with the uncritical expectation that...
How much content should a franchise produce? A recent WSJ story indicates that the expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is approaching...
06.05.2025
Following up on an earlier post, Reciprocal tariffs as a tit-for-tat strategy in a repeated prisoners' dilemma From NY Times : Trump impos...
04.05.2025
While healthcare in Canada's single-payer health care system is technically free, its real price is measured in wait times. In 2023, the...
24.04.2025
Mansion Global : Before the palisades fires, a nearbySanta Monica property was listed at $15,000 per month. But afterwards, the landlord...
22.04.2025
WSJ : On Monday Mr. Trump demanded again that [the Federal Reserve] make “pre-emptive” interest rate cuts to avoid a slowdown. The Fed...
18.04.2025
The robotaxi business is getting another entrant, but also a different kind of entrant. Zoox , a decade old startup purchased by Amazon in 2...
16.04.2025
To prevent the spread of bird flu, 166 million birds were culled, most toward the end of 2024. Since the US typically has about 400 million...
15.04.2025
Google on the re-shoring response to 2018 Appliance Tariffs : In response to the 2018 U.S. tariffs on washing machines and other appliances...
The Visual Capitalist produces many wonderful visualizations. This one displays how fast firms rise into and fall out of the the top US 10 ...
05.04.2025
Trade policy has the characteristic of a Prisoners' Dilemma game: free trade is the best outcome (no tariffs), but that is not a Nash Equili...
02.04.2025
Only if you ask an ecologist . "We are using 50% more resources than the Earth can sustainably produce, and unless we change course, that ...
31.03.2025
Open Philanthropy's Progress and Growth Fund ...scientific and technological progress that creates ideas is the main driver of long-run ...
26.03.2025
From Bryan Caplan's Bet On It : “In their recent article,‘Why People Prefer Unequal Societies,’the psychologists Christina Starmans, Mark...
25.03.2025
Economist : [Cambridge, MA] is “becoming a barbell society,” ...The poor got help and the wealthy lived well, but ... young families lea...
24.03.2025
Economist : The magazine article focuses on explaining "residual" happiness, the vertical distance between the line and the observation),...
23.03.2025
From MarginalRevolution : Danish houses near wind turbines have 12% lower prices.
18.03.2025
John Cochrane recommends the Economist article Aid cannot make poor countries rich. From 2004 to 2014, foreign aid increased by 75%, but i...
14.03.2025
Article by Joshua Hendrickson The U.S. dollar is the world’s reserve currency, and the U.S. Treasury security is the global reserve asset...
11.03.2025
I ran across this image that seems to support the idea capital/labor substitution in software development (see earlier pos t). Stack overflo...
08.03.2025
Alcoa would seem to benefit from an increase in demand for domestically produced aluminum from the imposition of 25% tariffs on steel and al...
04.03.2025
Is narc'ing on your competition the prisoners' dilemma equilibrium?
01.03.2025
The WSJ reports on the Egg Clearinghouse, or ECI while we are in the midst of the recent dramatic egg shortage and increase in egg prices....
25.02.2025
The employment market for software developers sucks right now. ADP released a study from their payroll data in June, 2024 that included thi...
WSJ : With a list price of $3.7 million, Ferrari’s new “hypercar” was revealed to the public in October with a twist: It wasn’t availabl...
Baby or Your Money Back It’s that simple. If your IVF is not successful after 2 cycles, you make an insurance claim. You get] your money...