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Hey – Do you want to invest in Bitcoin?

I got the text around the start of the year.  Some of you have gotten the same text.  Mine came from an old friend who works in the financial industry – but he was far from the only person asking

Andrew Eifler May 6, 2018May 6, 2018 Economics No Comments Read more

A Roaring Economy, Easy Money, and a Bunch of Restaurants that are Going to Go Out of Business.

In the morning before work I go to the gym on the corner of 38th street and Broadway.  Here’s the intersection (above) – courtesy of Google Street View (at the very left of the picture above, on the second floor,

Andrew Eifler December 10, 2017 Economics No Comments Read more

Economic Cycles

Looking back on 2015, one of the most important things I learned was about the concept of economic cycles. Prior to this past year, the entire concept of an economic cycle was foreign to me. I saw the rise and

Andrew Eifler January 3, 2016 Economics 1 Comment Read more

Boerum Apparel

For the very first time this weekend, when I was getting dressed in the morning, I thought to myself: where did my shirt come from?  Where did the materials come from to make my pants?  Were the people that manufactured

Andrew Eifler September 15, 2014 Economics 1 Comment Read more

Profits vs Profitability

In hindsight, I realize I was wrong, but I was very skeptical of social networking websites in the early years.  I even wrote a blog post about it back in 2009 (see: Are Social Networking Websites the Next Bubble?).  The

Andrew Eifler June 16, 2013 Ad Tech, Economics 1 Comment Read more

Low-End Market Disruption

Early in my career, I made a simple promise to two professors at Skidmore College who focus on Advertising and Marketing.  I told them that each time they invite me up to talk to their students I will prepare a

Andrew Eifler March 31, 2013 Business, Economics 1 Comment Read more

How to Fix the US Economy

Personally, I’ve never been very passionate about politics.  I do enjoy watching Jon Stewart, but outside of satire there are a lot of things that repel me from political debate in the United States.   Chiefly, I don’t like the constant

Andrew Eifler August 5, 2012 Economics 1 Comment Read more

Why do we still sign credit card receipts?

Yesterday morning I logged onto my computer to check the balance in my savings account and my credit card online. To log into the ING Direct website (the custodian of my savings account), I entered my nine digit customer ID

Andrew Eifler April 15, 2012 Economics, Human Behavior 1 Comment Read more

The Current State of America

In his book, “The World America Made,” Robert Kagan makes a particularly unpopular argument about the current state of America: Everything is fine. I haven’t read the book yet (it’s on my list), but from the first time I heard

Andrew Eifler March 4, 2012 Economics, Life, Psychology 1 Comment Read more

An Apartment Rental Epiphany

I spent a good deal of time this week looking at apartments in Brooklyn.  Come February 1st I will be moving in with my longtime girlfriend, Miranda, and in typical New York fashion, we were scrambling to find the perfect

Andrew Eifler January 8, 2012 Economics, Life 1 Comment Read more
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