Chicken and egg economics
How many times have you heard this argument with regard to the minimum wage? If employers pay employees more, then they’ll have more money to spend, and t...
Category: Economics
The biggest problem in health care NO ONE is discussing
With all the discussions about how to bring down the cost of health care in the United States, there is one I’m surprised few are discussing. Physician de...
One question no one seems to ask about diversity
Article: “Diversifying tech: Yes, white men can be part of the solution and not the problem” Ah another piece of virtue signalling. In other words, ...
Trickle-down economics, or why you have a computer or smartphone
Many on the left do not understand how “trickle-down economics” works. The more accurate name is “supply-side” economics. Colloquially i...
Some basic math for Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats has been posting a bunch of memes to Facebook talking about the call for a $15 minimum wage. And the way they are trying to support the idea is...
It’s not an "anti-college" debate
Let’s start with a simple question: if I recommend that you buy a PC over a Mac, am I anti-Mac? I think a lot of us would probably say No, especially if t...
It’s partly a numbers game
Let’s do some math, but first, we need to define some terms. Expenses and expenditures are two words that can be used interchangeably, and basically it...
5 Steps for Funding Your Kid’s College Education
One thing that I find rather troubling is this persistent idea that parents must pay for their kid’s college education. Recently Nicole Seghetti, a contri...
MMOs and economics
Recently Cracked.com decided to tackle the subject of MMO – massively-multiplayer online games – in an article called “5 Ways Video Games are Saving Manki...