Lords a leaping, maids a milking and partridges in a pear tree are hardly useful gifts these days, but thanks to the classic song's popularity, they are now used as a standard measure for inflation. Of course, if you did...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/28/the-12-days-of-christmas-list-now-costs-over-100000/Randall Munroe at xkcd put together a chart about money, so massive that you'll have to enlarge a few times just to read it. The statistics cover what things cost, what people earn, business profits, taxes, government sp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/21/the-money-chart/It seems an odd problem to have, this "too much cash" thing. I don't know that most of us can relate. But it seems that in times of economic insecurity, those who used to invest in stocks are simply holding their money i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/27/banks-with-too-much-cash-charge-for-deposits/Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cub has been inching towards capitalism -mostly in the form of tourism. Can Havana once again become "the Latin Las Vegas"? Communist countries aren't known for being vacat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/14/how-tourism-is-taking-cuba-out-of-the-red/Can you teach a monkey the basics of market economy? In this article over at our pal mental_floss, Allen St. John wrote about an intriguing research by Laurie Santos and Keith Chen of Yale Uni...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/24/monkeynomics-can-you-teach-a-monkey-to-spend-money/Air Force Lt. Col. Dan Ward did a cost/benefit ana... ...g. Link -via TYWKIWDBI Previously/Related: The Economics of Death Star Planet Destruction
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/12/the-death-star-a-pentagon-purchasing-nightmare/by Yoram Bauman [1] University of Washington, Sea... ...ofessor N. Gregory Mankiw’s introductory economics textbook, Principles of Economics , is a synthesis of economic thought into Ten Prin... ...of economic thought into Ten Principles of Economics (...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/30/mankiws-ten-principles-of-economics-translated/Questions of logic don't apply to Hollywood movies, but science fiction fans like their stories to make some kind of sense. So the discussion turned to the logic of using a Death Star to blow up a planet. What’s the e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/29/the-economics-of-death-star-planet-destruction/An article at the Wall Street Journal says Americans spend $1.2 trillion annually for things we don't need. As it turns out, quite a lot. A non-scientific study of Commerce Department data suggests that in February, U.S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/25/stuff-we-dont-need/(YouTube link) The term "globally" here does not mean worldwide so much as it means seeing the problem as a whole as opposed to its parts. Dr. Eli Goldratt {wiki} explains what happens to the supply chain of consume...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/12/thinking-globally/
