Category — Economics

Link to Freakonomics Blog » Will the High Price of Oil Make Americans Skinnier?

Yes, another link, but this one is interesting.  I’m trying to cut out HFCS and lordy it is everywhere!

I may order my Dr. Pepper from Dublin, TX as they use cane sugar, and I’ve always wondered what it would taste like.

Respectful of Otters

Precisely.  I've thought that if certain jobs actually paid enough, Americans would work at those jobs.  It is expensive nowadays to rais e a family and y'know actually keep one's head above water.  $5.15/hr (the oh so generous minimum wage) does NOT pay the bills and neither does $10.42/hr (40 hour check=$337 after taxes and insurance).

Paul Craig Roberts: "Partnering" the Destruction of the American Economy

Interesting essay on outsourcing and the economy.

A quote:

Many Americans and almost every economist and policymaker do not see the peril. They confuse outsourcing with free trade, and they have been taught that free trade is always beneficial.

The Dark Wraith Forums

Great post from last year. I was digging through my drafts on Blogger and unearthed a proto-post I was writing. I wonder what students are actually taught in Economics.