Economics

The Money Game Lesson: Incentives Matter Materials: a penny, a one-dollar bill, a five-dollar bill, a ten-dollar bill Monetary cost: $16.01 (but can be scaled down) Time: 5 minutes The Game: This game was adapted from an example used by a fictitious character in the book The Invisible He...

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Current Topic: Incentives Previous Topics Connected: None Future Topics Foreshadowed: Opportunity cost, marginal benefit, marginal cost, demand News Article: Hooponomics! Link: Indicator Podcast with transcript Description: Podcast (

Current Topic: Incentives Previous Topics Connected: None Future Topics Foreshadowed: Demand, Taxes News Article/Podcast: Are Plastic Bag Bans Garbage? Link: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/09/711181385/are-plastic-bag-bans-garbage Description: In an effort to cut down on waste, many...

A national movement to ban plastic bags is gaining steam, but these restrictions may actually hurt the environment more than help it.

A single test that can give false reassurance sounds bad. But a $10 test for the coronavirus, if repeated daily, would discover real infections, say proponents of such tests as screening tools.

A national network of food banks couldn't figure out how to get the right food to the right place at the right time. So they tried a bold experiment: the free market.

The introduction of the three-point line changed how people play basketball. And it has some compelling parallels to economics.

Shannon Reaves, the owner of body care maker Bath Savvy, had to make a call in June: Reopen her retail store or cut the lease and move on. The Harper Woods resident chose the latter. She closed her shop in the Rust Belt Market in downtown Ferndale in favor of focusing her efforts online during…

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Starbucks said it would directly connect the building of inclusive and diverse teams to the pay of its executives.

Detroit-based online retailer Ash & Erie has had great success since its start in 2015 and the clothier is determined to not let the pandemic slow its momentum.The company, which specializes in clothes for men 5 feet 8 inches and shorter, primarily has focused on clothes for professionals, but…

The Republican-controlled Legislature wanted to spread skyrocketing unemployment insurance costs across all taxpayers as a way of helping businesses. Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is having none of it.But that's not going to stop the bill from coming due.Whitmer's line-item veto Tuesday of the…

It's the thought that counts, which is good because in economic terms, gift exchange is a disaster.

It is no exaggeration to say that learning economics changed my life. In fact, I would go as far as saying the two most pivotal moments of my young adulthood was meeting my future wife at 17 and...

A group of Wayne County residents affected by the pandemic has received an early Christmas present.Wayne County officials on Wednesday distributed $500 one-time payments via debit card to each of about 12,000 restaurant, fitness and entertainment venue employees. Those workers, all Wayne County…

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In the latest sign of distress in the hotel market, the Westin Book Cadillac in downtown Detroit is now underwater on its commercial mortgage-backed securities debt totaling $77 million. Trepp LLC, which tracks CMBS debt, says that the 453-room hotel's appraised value plunged dramatically from $136…

/PRNewswire/ -- According to the latest Future of Money Study from Logica Research, COVID-19 continues to impact Americans' money mindset. Key study findings...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has frequently urged lawmakers, using increasingly strong language, to pass more fiscal stimulus.

The unemployment rate doesn't tell the whole story. We talked to a panel of economists to find out what other measures can shed light on whether we're in a short-term crisis — or the start of a long recession.

Mortgage rates fell to another record low last week, for the 15th time this year.

As the pandemic batters the poor, the rich prop up state budgets.