Now that the election results are shaking out, I thought it would be fun to do a video on the economics behind Biden’s support. It turns out, we can trace his votes back 100 million years. If you are familiar with the Engerman-Sokoloff model, this will sound familiar.
Vaccine and Stocks
I’m not fully up to date on the vaccine news, but it sounds like Pfizer has made a big breakthrough. At least, markets seem to believe that’s the case. Here are how stocks are performing based on this morning’s news: airlines up, Zoom down.
Global Lego Prices
Here is a really neat article that could inspire research ideas. The journalist used a VPN to check prices for Lego bricks around the world and found that prices vary widely. The maps are cool, the price variations are interesting, and the method for finding them was fascinating. What prices should I lookup?
Pokemon GO
My son loves Pokemon, but we don’t let him play Pokemon GO. In fact, he made his own paper-based version so he could get the experience. So this tweet was both surprising and unsurprising: the game is having its biggest revenue year ever. Even more than those days where people were crashing their cars at Pokestops.
