Airbnb is ahead of its time and has majorly disrupted the Hotel industry, but regulating the company is unwarranted. On October 16, 2016, New York state passed regulation barring most urban apartment-dwellers from renting out their units for less than
From the Workshop of the EU to the Workshop of the World
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Trickle Up Economics: The Case for a Higher Federal Minimum Wage
The new year brought a new, and higher, state minimum wage in 19 states due to the inaction of the Federal government to raise the federal minimum wage. The last time the federal minimum wage changed was in 2009, when
UnitedHealth Group Changes the Competitive Landscape of the Healthcare Industry
In the beginning of 2016, UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest private health insurer, raised concern about the amount of small co-op health plans they expected to closed. By the turn of 2017, United announced its departure from various exchange markets
Relationship between Real Disposable Income and Real Personal Consumption Expenditure on Non-Durable Goods
I chose to compare quarterly changes in Real Disposable Income measured in billions of chained 2009 dollars and changes in Real Personal Consumption Expenditure of Non-Durable Goods between 1/1/1991 and 12/1/2016. Following includes my time-series regression, its respective Engel Curve,