China's One-child Policy: redundant and now go

Mike Smitka, Prof of Economics, Washington and Lee Here I discuss the end of China's one-child policy. In my weekly WREL economics segme...

Walmart overseas: why so poor a performance?

Mike Smitka Let me follow up on my previous post on Walmart's strategic challenges. There I noted that Walmart has been singularly unsuc...

The Economics of Strategy: Walmart's Senescense

Michael Smitka Washington and Lee University October 22, 2015 WREL Update Today there's no "news" – nothing in the latest econ...

TPP and Inflation: Weekly News

Mike Smitka, Washington and Lee University First, Wednesday Oct 14 and Thursday Oct 15 (today, but after taping my radio segment) saw the re...

Employment and Dynamic Scoring

Mike Smitka Economics, Washington and Lee University Here are quick notes on my WREL Lexington AM 1450 radio show of October 8, 2015. There...

Can tax cuts pay for themselves?

The assorted Republican hopefuls are now trotting out pieces of policy platforms. Most of them aren't very good working with media. Then...

Econ Update: WREL Lexington VA

by Mike Smitka, Economics Dept, Washington and Lee University Sept 17 (here) and Sept 24 (below) The Fed – specifically the Federal Open Ma...