In Defense of Payday Loans In August last year, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver did a segment on payday loans. The video can be seen here below. Video Source This ...
Quote of the Day (April 9th, 2015): Thomas Sowell on the Minimum Wage Today's quote comes from the great economist Thomas Sowell about the minimum wage. The following quote was taken from his book Basic Ec...
Trickle-Down Economics Redux The Straw Man Argument is a type of argument that is used to misrepresent someone else's argument, by way of exaggeration or misreprese...
Gender Quotas for Corporate Boardrooms - A Horrible Idea On Mar ch 6 th 2015, Germany passed a law that requires its large companies to allocate 30 percent of their seats on non-executive boards t...
Super Fun Economic Review – Part 1: The Boring News Stuff Before We Dive Into the Fun Stuff Economics can be a very dry subject to many people. In fact, when I first came across the topic of economics while I was in high school, th...