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This website is still under construction

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This site offers humorous, hyperbole-free commentary on current political events and policy proposals from the perspective of an economist, which are hopefully understandable to the layperson. This site also offers short fifteen minute lessons to build economic and statistics literacy with easy to read animated PowerPoint shows (Download free PPS viewer).  

 

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Hal W. Snarr is the son of a third generation Idaho potato farmer who accidentally bumped into his current profession, associate professor of economics. At the ripe old age of 28, a couple of years after finishing his enlistment in the US Navy, he took a course in calculus at Idaho State University. Two years later, he found himself proving theorems and teaching college algebra as a graduate student in the ISU mathematics department. While at ISU, he took a course in mathematical economics where he gained a practical understanding for the eigenvalue. The following semester he transferred to Washington State University, where he earned a Ph.D. in economics in May of 2004. Snarr holds undergraduate degrees in business and mathematics and studies the effects of welfare reform on various decisions of low-income single mothers.