Economy

Welcome to NYC’s economy section, where we explain why your coffee costs $7, your studio apartment costs $3,000, and your soul costs whatever dignity you have left after your fourth roommate interview. We analyze income inequality, dissect rent economics, and try to understand why a city with this many billionaires still has crumbling infrastructure. The answer is always “because rich people don’t ride the subway,” but we’ll explore it from every angle anyway. Economics: it’s just theft with better marketing!