The 6-minute, 48-second cartoon features two stuffed animals, drawn in Pokémon style, talking about monetary policy. Specifically, the bears--or are they dogs?--point out the illogic in the ...

The major concepts of macroeconomics are broken down with wit, verve, and clarity in this excellent follow-up to The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Vol. 1: Microeconomics. Klein and Bauman lay ...

Paul Solman, Economics Correspondent BRANKO MILANOVIC ... PAUL SOLMAN: And that’s why the elephant graph has such oomph to it, right? Because you can see, relative to either side of the ...

With the new school year starting, there is good news for incoming students of economics—and anybody ... and a section on the famous “hockey stick” graph, which shows how these standards ...

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This article has been updated to reflect revisions by Oxford Economics to the dollar amount of drag on the economy due to increased tariffs. The escalation of the U.S.-China trade fight — and ...

Cancel anytime. Monday’s political cartoon was almost 100 percent correct on trickle-down economics. The only thing wrong about it was our wealthy overlords had to climb stairs to use the restroom.

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In need of insight, not to mention a laugh, I called up Yoram Bauman, the world's only stand-up economist, co-author of "The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume Two: Macroeconomics" (Hill ...

And if you want a single snapshot that captures the broad sweep of that transformation, you could do much worse than this graph from a new Pew report, which tracks how average family incomes have ...