Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Economics”
Will you receive a second government stimulus check in October 2020 and how much will it be? Let’s dig through the facts as we know them. Currently, the House and Senate are in a stalemate over the amount of money that should be included in a second stimulus package but both Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin are encouraging …
In this article, we will take a look at countries with high income equality AND inequality and ask the question: Between these two, which leads to a better standard of living for the whole? I recently wrote an article about socialism in Sweden. With Joe Biden promising higher taxes on those making over $400,000 if he wins the presidency, the …
Will you be receiving a second stimulus check payment in 2020 and, if so, how much will it be? The current amount that you would receive in a second stimulus check of 2020 would be roughly equivalent to the first stimulus check of 2020. Many of you have already received your first 2020 stimulus payment and gotten all of your …
While Americans continue to wonder when they’ll receive their second stimulus check, the Republican-filled Senate continues to argue over the details of their new stimulus package called The HEALS Act. If you are wondering about how much a second stimulus check would be, the answer is that it would be roughly the same amount as the first stimulus check from …
This morning I was investigating whether Sweden is a socialist country. Why? Well, having just seen many accusatory commentators on Fox News claiming that we are “becoming a socialist country like Sweden”, I decided to put on my investigative cap and do some research. The first question that came to my mind was: Is being like Sweden a bad thing?
In this article, we investigate the Best Student Loan Consolidation and the Best Student Loan Consolidation Companies that enable you to pay off your myriad school loans such as Stafford Loans, PLUS Loans, and Federal Perkins Loans.
This essay was written in the mid-2000’s when the economies of Europe were thriving and the U.S. was unknowingly on the threshold of one of the biggest financial disasters in our history. This essay asks an important question that is perhaps even more valid today: Are our entrenched practices holding us back in the modern economy? One startling example of …
There are 3 main cell phone companies: Ancel, MovieStar, and CTIMovil. Like most South Americans, nobody here makes a phone call. If you receive one, it’s important, or the person is rich and lazy. It’s comparatively expensive to make a phone call. Everyone WhatsApps everything-it’s kind of hassle. It’s not uncommon for someone to say “oh, my phone is out …
This is an article I wrote about the Freakonomics of Uruguay back in 2007. Some of the observations would no longer be accurate today (like the tattoo one!) ……but some would. Thus, I leave this article about Uruguayan Freakonomics here for a glimpse of the past and perhaps some revelations about the present. I met a girl named Maria the …
In 2012, President Obama wants to extend the Bush tax cuts for “middle class” but not the wealthy. As the end deadline approaches for the Bush era tax cuts, President Obama seeks to continue the tax cuts for the middle class but allow the tax cuts for the rich to lapse.