Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article discussing my Prom Price Index (article is here). For those of you who are new readers, I have been creating an index that tracks the change in the price of going to the Prom since 2014. The updated 2018 index is found on this blog under the “Data Files” heading or by clicking here. Continue reading The Prom and the Wall Street Journal
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Is It Time to End Tipping?
Today’s Wall Street Journal (Feb. 29, 2016, page R7; online version is here) printed an article I wrote. They asked me to be part of a debate on “Should tipping be eliminated in restaurants?” I took the “yes” side. This is a follow on article from the piece I wrote a year earlier in February 2015 (see the original piece here) that advocated the same idea. Continue reading Is It Time to End Tipping?