Inflation is back--but for how long? Mike Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss the latest wave of inflation, and what might happen next. 

President Biden has proposed a big infrastructure spending package. Mike Mandel and Sean Flynn talk about the economics of infrastructure. 

Michael Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss the impact of President Biden's $1.9 trillion fiscal stimulus package. 

Michael Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss the economics of developing the Covid vaccines.

Michael Mandel talks with Michael Baye and Jeff Prince, authors of  Managerial Economics & Business Strategy, about price discrimination in the Covid Economy. 

Michael Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss the link between the Covid Recession and the stock market. What do the ups and downs of the market mean for the economy and the ordinary person?

Michael Mandel and Sean Flynn explain Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's big speech on New Economic Challenges and the Fed's Monetary Policy Review (August 27, 2020).  They discuss the Fed's new approach to inflation and monetary policy, and how it matters to economics students.

We talk with Martha Field, co-author of Environmental Economics: An Introduction, about the pandemic's impact on the environment. 

The pandemic has plunged the economy into a Covid Recession. Mike Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss why the Covid Recession is different from the Great Depression of 1929, and how government policy has changed. 

The Covid pandemic caused some of the fastest, biggest shifts of supply and demand curves in history. Textbook authors Michael Mandel and Sean Flynn explains what it all means