Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End cost $300 million to produce. Oz the Great and Powerful is said to have cost $325 million. And that doesn't include the cost of marketing, which can be just as much, or even...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/07/The-10-Most-Inexplicably-Expensive-Movies-Ever-Made/
On the island of Sodor in the Irish Sea, sentient locomotives carry passengers and cargo everywhere. Alex Knapp of Forbes watches a lot of the children's television show Thomas & Friends and has been trying to unders...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/01/The-Baffling-Economics-of-Thomas-and-Friends/
James Bond's foes concoct wild schemes for power and money, some less realistic than others. Which ones, from an economic point of view, were feasible? Jean-Jacques Dethier, a development economist working for the World...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/20/Which-Bond-Villains-Plan-Made-the-Most-Economic-Sense/
The Atlantic Cities has a chart that and calculates how long it would take a person making the average wage in the top 100 American cities to save up for a down payment on a 2,000-square-foot home based on the average pr...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/30/How-Long-Will-You-Need-to-Save-to-Buy-a-Home-In-Your-City/
According to Wikipedia, Opportunity Cost is "the c... ...pportunity cost question that stumps far too many economics students. Answer this: "You won a free ticket to...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/05/the-opportunity-cost-of-a-free-concert-ticket/
It's obviously a great weapon to strike down your... ...d better check out this great article over on the economics blog Centives that goes into figuring out just ho...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/26/the-true-cost-of-building-the-death-star/
The economy was tanking. Millions lost their jobs. Stocks were down. And since bankers seemed to be riding out the bad times better than anyone, the government appointed a commission to look into who was to blame for the...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/29/the-man-who-busted-the-banksters/
Lords a leaping, maids a milking and partridges in a pear tree are hardly useful gifts these days, but thanks to the classic song's popularity, they are now used as a standard measure for inflation. Of course, if you did...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/28/the-12-days-of-christmas-list-now-costs-over-100000/
Randall Munroe at xkcd put together a chart about money, so massive that you'll have to enlarge a few times just to read it. The statistics cover what things cost, what people earn, business profits, taxes, government sp...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/21/the-money-chart/
It seems an odd problem to have, this "too much cash" thing. I don't know that most of us can relate. But it seems that in times of economic insecurity, those who used to invest in stocks are simply holding their money i...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/27/banks-with-too-much-cash-charge-for-deposits/
