A Parade article this past Sunday titled Tax Breaks for Films Gets Mixed Reviews, discusses the argument of whether states should offer tax breaks and other incentives in order to get production companies to shoot movies and TV shows within…
The Center for Public Integrity posted an article a couple weeks back detailing how in the past three years BP has accounted for 97% of all flagrant violations found in the refining industry, most of them being “willful citations.” The…
The Prisoner’s Dilemma concept, tied with the game theory, is something I find really interesting. I found the following comic to not only overview the Prisoner’s Dilemma concept very well, but it also shows Jeremy Bentham, one of the people…
The Employment Report is out and employment increased by 431,000 jobs in May, 411,000 of those being the temporary Census positions. Manufacturing, temporary help services, and mining added jobs, while construction employment declined. Overall, the unemployment rate fell .2% to…
In the study of economics, a person is represented as being a rational individual, making choices that will benefit himself. The Library of Economics (which, by the way, is quickly becoming one of my favorite websites) calls this person the…
