Written Articles
Airplanes
Why Would Anyone Want to Sit on a Plane for Over 18 Hours? An Economist Takes the World’s Longest Flight
The day and a half it takes to get from New York to Singapore and back offers plenty of time to ponder the economics of ultra-long-haul flights—and wonder why we'd want to make it any longer.
By Jay L. Zagorsky
October 28, 2019
Finance
Wall Street is Ignoring the Omens of Recession–Here’s Why
An economist unravels the seeming contradiction between stocks near record highs and growing fears of a recession.