Managerial Econ

Good for the President for taking this on , as this splits his coalition by pitting the “open space” and “anti-development” crowd against t...

LA Times Poll shows Trump in the lead Iowa Electronic Market shows Clinton with a 72% chance of winning the election

The Planet Money team recently  set out to see who sets the price of oil . They found out that it was not some financial speculator or an ar...

The citizens of the city of Arlington will soon vote on whether to increases taxas (0.5% sales, 2% hotel, 5% car rental) to subsidize the b...

Guess which one they disclose ? The market-based numbers are “close to the truth of the liability,” Professor Sharpe said. But most electe...

Over a typical year, hotel demand spikes in the summer, and then sharply collapses as school starts.  It picks up in the fall, and then t...

It looks as if  fewer people want to get in .  The graph above shows participants in the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP...

Would you give up all car travel for $250,000? That is, you never get to get into a car ever again. Not to drive, not as a passenger, not t...

$359 for a suit to get married in Nordstrom Rack:  a price discrimination scheme to sell unwanted or out-of-style clothes at a discount...

A new scandal at Wells Fargo is coming to light ( here , here , and here ) in which employees moved customers' funds into newly created ...