To shock some life into the economy and to get Americans back to work, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the New Deal in 1930s.

An important legal concept has been invoked as Big Island macnut growers sue Hawaiian Host over nuts delivered but not paid for.

Even with the drop in available vacation rentals during the pandemic, the numbers were low for February 2021. Howard Dicus has the details by island.

Economics and politics should never mix, but they do. Howard explains why.

In this Illustrated Economics, Howard goes over the continuing shortage of state tax revenue.

In this Illustrated Economics, Howard has the numbers for February arrivals.

It's time for Howard's Illustrated Economics. This time, Matson's 2020 container shipping.

In this Illustrated Economics, Howard discusses which businesses have benefitted during the coronavirus pandemic.

Hawaii new jobless claims rose last week, same as mainland claims did.

Time to learn a new term about the stock market: dark trading. Most stocks are traded openly on stock exchanges.

In this edition of Illustrated Economics, Howard takes a look at Neighbor Island house prices.

The forbearance program covers federally-backed mortgages, which is 75% of them. Howard Dicus reports.

Howard goes over the current unemployment rates broken down by schooling.

Business reporter Howard Dicus draws us an island-by-island update on the jobless numbers for last week.

Howard discusses whether anything can be done to inoculate our economy against future tourism disasters like Covid.

The Chamber of Commerce polled 300 members on COVID slump effects. Revenues fell an average 45% last year and 45% of businesses reduced workforce.

There was only a fraction of the percentage of visitors to Hawaii during the pandemic. What did they think about the effort it took to travel to our islands.