The bottle deposit has been a nickel since Reagan. Inflation quietly broke it, and one state’s fix shows how incentives really work.

Oktoberfest is the world’s biggest beer festival, yet only six breweries are allowed to serve their beer inside the official tents in Munich.

A recruiter says your iced coffee could cost you the job. Gen Z says that's ridiculous. A Nobel-winning economist would say they both have a point.

Gas prices shot up in 72 hours, but history says the relief will take weeks. Here's the economic pattern behind every "hang in there" you've ever heard at the pump.

The US Open hoped to sell 800,000 Honey Deuces this year at $23 a pop. Here's the economics behind why a cocktail became the real story of the US Open.

Why do America's busiest airports keep getting bigger instead of getting company? A look at the last time any major U.S. city actually built a new one, and why that stopped.

A viral tweet called this a contradiction, but it's not. It's one of the most elegant ideas in economics, and it's hard to unsee it once you learn about it.

Why is NeeDoh, America's hottest toy, always sold out? Empty shelves, rationing signs, and the supply-and-demand story behind the shortage.

A college kid's viral complaint about a $20 burrito turned into a political food fight. Nobody explained the actual economics, so we did.

Budget phones and mid-range laptops are quietly vanishing, but not because of inflation or tariffs. They're disappearing thanks to an AI-fueled memory chip shortage most people haven't heard about.

Your back-to-school cart is running hotter than headline inflation, and some items are way hotter. Here's a complete item-by-item breakdown that highlights which items actually got cheaper.

It takes three separate government licenses to legally cut hair in New York City. Here's the economics of why and who actually benefits.

Why does a price increase send you running for the store brand on cereal, but not on eggs? The answer is hiding in your shopping cart.

What penalty kicks, emergency landings, and sports bets have in common: we all think we'd be fine.

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A Harvard economist plays goalkeeper for the USMNT at the World Cup. He wrote a research paper on penalty kicks years ago, but he won't tell anyone what's in it. Here's why that's the perfect way to u...

I had a perfect seat at the World Cup. Then someone a few rows ahead of me stood up. Then the next row. Then the next. By the time it reached me, I had no choice but to stand, too. Here's the economic...

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Cabo Verde is drawing against some of the strongest teams at the 2026 World Cup. All but one of Curaçao's twenty-six players were born in the Netherlands. This is one of the clearest illustrations of ...

A German fan couldn't choose from 100+ sodas. A Scot called Buc-ee's one of a kind. A Swede couldn't believe every restaurant has its own ranch. This summer's World Cup visitors are stumbling onto the...

Every World Cup comes with billion-dollar promises. Every time, the economists shrug. Before FIFA and politicians take their victory lap in July, here's what the research has been saying for decades a...

Is crypto actually money? It has the wallets. It has the transactions. It even had an entire country behind it. But only 2% of Americans used crypto to buy anything last year.

You're earning more and affording less, and it's not because you're bad with money. The latest inflation numbers show that most American workers effectively took a pay cut this year, even if their sal...

Spotify wants you to look up the first song you ever streamed. That nostalgic feeling? It's also the reason you'll probably never cancel.

ShinyHunters hacked Canvas during finals week and demanded a ransom. Why would anyone pay criminals who could just take the money and dump the data anyway? Pirates had the answer 300 years ago.

Spirit flew for years while losing money. Then jet fuel doubled overnight and grounded them for good.

He bought two cans of tomato sauce, just to be safe. Multiply that across thousands of households every day, and you have an economics problem worth understanding.

Economists have a reputation for disagreeing on everything. But when it comes to the environment, the experts are more aligned than you might think.

Can you answer these three money questions? Most American adults can't, and it turns out that whether you ever learned this stuff in school depended largely on where you grew up.

"We're fighting wars. We can't take care of daycare." Trump's off-the-cuff remark at a luncheon is actually one of the oldest ideas in economics. It connects Nazi Germany, LBJ's Great Society, and a g...

A field experiment paid thousands of people to give up Facebook and Instagram, and then the researchers tracked where their time went. The answer wasn't TikTok or Snapchat. It was games, YouTube, and ...

Employers know what the job pays. You don't. Here's why that gap exists, and how workers are closing it.

From recession to budget surplus to dot-com bubble, the economic story of the '90s is more interesting than the nostalgia lets on.

Why did Dick's Sporting Goods rank No. 3 in the Apple App Store above Google Gemini? The answer is a simple economics lesson about incentives, data, and ten cents a day.

No one wants to work anymore… until wages rise. NYC’s snowstorm shows how incentives and opportunity costs shape labor supply.