http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX7fqaxMfJQ&feature=g-hist The link to the video above ( please bare with it being a music video ) shows some real life situations that economics plays a major factor in. Like how expensive movie theater popcorn is, or how Walmart can keep lowering their prices no matter how bad the economic climate seems. This post in particular means a lot to me since I plan on being an econ major ( well international economic affairs major but close enough ) and I have had trouble trying to explain to so many of my friends why they should care about economics. Most of them would say things like "well it's just not stupid to you because you understand it, if you were me you would think it is stupid too." , even if I explain that it effects their everyday life I get the same response. So hopefully this post will persuade one or two who read it and cement the importance of economics to anyone else who reads it. Let's start off with girls who comp