I had a post the other day noting that the correlation between top marginal rates and real GDP per capita is positive. Depending on how you look at it (i.e. growth over several years, growth over one ...

Learn how procyclic trends in GDP, labor, and consumer goods follow the economy's cycles. Explore examples and insights into fiscal behaviors in economic booms and busts.

In studying the connection between economics and yearly trends in what he calls "shark-human interactions," shark attack expert George Burgess spotted a pattern. NPR's Rachel Martin asks Burgess about ...

The marginal propensity to save and the marginal propensity to consume are both measurements relative to the amount of expendable income in the budget of individuals and businesses alike. The ...

This interview is part of our “Econ Extra Credit” project, where we read an introductory economics textbook provided by the nonprofit Core Econ together with our listeners. For most of human history, ...

This correlation between the world’s tallest skyscrapers and economic busts appeared again in the 1970s and, in Asia, in the 1990s. Is all this just coincidence or is there something deeper at work ...

Markets are signaling that they don't think falling bond yields signal an economic downturn that will damage corporate earnings. That's the message from a collapse of the correlation between equities ...

Two things struck me about a recent CNN story following controversy over the tax on jobs in Seattle that many want targeted at Amazon. First, was the headline. Meteors don't rise, they fall. The other ...

Explore how happiness economics measures individual satisfaction through surveys, analyzing economic factors like income, employment, and their impact on well-being.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We consider two ways of distinguishing deterministic time-series from stochastic white noise; the Grassberger-Procaccia correlation exponent ...