November 20, 2016

Biotechnology Won Big On Election Night Here’s Why

Hillary Clinton and Democrats promised to wage war on pharmaceutical companies and do things like price controls on drugs and products of the biotechnology industry. In...

by Lance Jepsen

Business

November 16, 2016

Microeconomics of the Monopoly

Donald Trump said he would block the AT&T and Time Warner merger if he becomes president, arguing that such media combinations leave too much power concentrated among too...

by Lance Jepsen

Economics

US Economy

November 14, 2016

Trump Administration and Tariffs Versus Quotas

Protectionist policies in the form of tariffs and quotas are coming from a Trump Administration. It seems appropriate then that we examine tariffs and quotas from a...

by Lance Jepsen

US Economy

November 2, 2016

What Further Evidence the Fed Needs To Hike In December 2016

The Federal Reserve held short-term interest rates steady as traders expected. In the Fed’s postmeeting policy statement, it said it only needed “some further...

by Lance Jepsen

Business

Economics

October 23, 2016

Microeconomics and Taxation

Most government revenue comes from the taxation of transactions and labor. Taxes impact both the supply and demand curves. Taxes cause a buyer to pay more for something and...

by Lance Jepsen

A supply and demand chart showing equilibrium at the center axis of where supply and demand cross.

Economics

US Economy

October 17, 2016

The Aggregate Supply-Aggregate Demand Model

Looking at the aggregate supply (AS), aggregate demand (AD) model, we can see where the US economy is currently at in the economic cycle. It is critical that traders and...

by Lance Jepsen

Economics

US Economy

October 12, 2016

Illegal Immigration and Job Wage Stagnation In the US

Illegal immigration negatively impacts the hourly wage of US citizens. Illegal immigrants are pouring across the Mexico border, and we have no way of counting them but what we...

by Lance Jepsen

Chart showing supply and demand lines crossing.

Economics

October 4, 2016

Macroeconomics of the OPEC Cartel

All the recent talk of an OPEC deal to push up the price of oil is nonsense. Here is a hypothetical supply and demand chart of oil. In this hypothetical example, equilibrium...

by Lance Jepsen