Economics International

Please download and read the new study: Impact of Federal Transfers on State and Local Own Source Spending. “Free is a very good price” announced the 1980s pitchman for a local appliance sto...

http://www.econinternational.com/2015/11/new-study-concludes-there-are-few-things-as-expensive-as-free-federal-money/

On a bit of well-reasoned whim, we have moved our economics blogging over to a separate site, EconMinute.com. Today, we’re celebrating the first week birthday of EconMinute.com, and it’s rea...

http://www.econinternational.com/2015/04/this-blog-is-on-the-move-check-out-econminute-com-for-regular-updates-from-the-world-of-economics/

Welcome to the Econ Minute. It’s more than a minute, and it’s about more than just economics. This is our first podcast. This pilot podcast begins with a visit to a mixed up world where the h...

http://www.econinternational.com/2015/04/first-podcast-subsidies-smokes-and-solar/

In Portland, OR, Street Roots reports that a homeless former social worker with muscular dystrophy was hit with a misdemeanor theft charge for charging her phone from a plug on a planter-base on ...

http://www.econinternational.com/2015/04/the-crazy-mixed-up-world-of-free-electricity-where-the-homeless-get-arrested-and-tesla-owners-get-subsidies/

When Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion was being pushed, proponents argued that the increased insurance coverage would do wonderful things for pre-natal and newborn health. But, a new working pape...

http://www.econinternational.com/2015/04/how-to-get-pregnant-women-to-smoke-and-smoke-more-put-them-on-medicaid/

http://www.econinternational.com/2015/04/portland-housing-prices-are-growing-faster-than-incomes/

Case-Shiller released the monthly Home Price Indices for January (“January” is a 3 month average of November, December and January prices). Both the 10- and 20-city composites reported virtua...

http://www.econinternational.com/2015/03/u-s-home-prices-up-28-percent-since-the-bottom-of-the-market/

Consulting and expert testimony in economics, finance, and statistics

http://www.econinternational.com/2015/03/three-minute-how-to-how-to-make-a-tv-news-report-on-the-economy/

Portland’s Red and Black Cafe recently announced its closing via Facebook with a sad kitten photo. Red and Black sounds like a coffee shop straight out of a Portlandia episode or an article i...

http://www.econinternational.com/2015/03/red-and-black-cafe-closes-lessons-in-capitalism-from-a-socialist-coffee-shop/

Every summer, Portland hosts MusicFest NW which is, believe it or not a big music festival. This year the festival got bigger and the MBAs took over. They decided that the best way to extract dol...

http://www.econinternational.com/2014/08/you-can-learn-a-lot-from-a-one-dollar-peanut/