Mark J. Perry reports on the latest world trade data from The CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. He presents a graph from 2000 on showing that the levels…

In Part 3 of this series, I wondered a couple of things. – With the vehicle/1000 people number in the range of 825 to 845 since 2004, is the market…

In this Forbes article, Tim Worstall says he agrees with generally available birth control, but questions why health insurance should pay for it. Specifically he says: “But I really cannot…

The U.S. Election Atlas shows the Michigan county by county results for the general election in 2008. Note that they have inexplicably reversed the normal Red-Blue color coding. Contrast those…

Mitt Romney won the Michigan Republican primary yesterday by a margin of 41.1% to 37.9%, the remainder going to the rest of the overpopulated field – Herman Cain, Jon Huntsman…

In private communication, Roger Chittum got me thinking about the vehicle component of gasoline consumption. I’m going focus on the gross vehicle numbers, and not get too deeply into the…

I made a mistake in my original post. Graph 4 in that post was based on the wrong data set. As Roger Chittum pointed out in comments, that graph only…

Yesterday, Karl Smith posted on Oil and the Structural Recession. This seems to be one of Karl’s thinking-out-loud posts, with more questions than answers, some convoluted reasoning, and a conclusion…

Actual markets in the American economy are extremely rare and unusual beasts. An economics of markets ought to be regarded as generally useful as a biology of cephalopods, amid the…

We’ve already seen in previous installments of this series that since about 1980, I: corporate profits have soared, II: the slice of profits going to finance has soared even more,…