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May 3, 2024
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May 3, 2024
Where Water Stress Is a Worry

A malady that billions of people experience, water stress is spreading around the globe as climate changes.

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May 2, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and chickens' welfare
May 2, 2024
What AI Says About a Cluck

Trying to decipher chickens' welfare, we can look to AI for harnessing massive amounts of cluck and squawk data.

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May 1, 2024
Economic News Roundup and Zimbabwe's inflation
May 1, 2024
Why Zimbabwe’s Laundered Money Is Really Washed

The latest battle in Zimbabwe's war against inflation is being fought with another new currency that is called the ZiG.

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April 30, 2024
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April 30, 2024
How the Minimum Wage Can Cost More Than Money

While California's minimum wage update takes us to new data, it does not end the debate on the impact of increasing the minimum wage.

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April 29, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and perverse incentives
April 29, 2024
Why Does It Matter What We Measure?

Because the GDP, the Dow, and even the employment numbers are insufficiently personal, they do a poor job of measuring well-being.

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April 28, 2024
Our Weekly Economic News Roundup and comparing wages
April 28, 2024
Where Female Entrepreneurs Get Less Funding

Looking at women's venture caqpital funding in the United States and Europe, we would see a vast chasm between the women and the men.

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April 27, 2024
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April 27, 2024
Our Weekly Economic New Roundup: From Alaska Oil to Space Debris

Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from Captchas to coffee beans.

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April 26, 2024
Friday's e-links
April 26, 2024
April 2024 Friday’s e-links: A New Mystery

Continuing with our April e-links, this week I recommend the fifth book in the Hawthorne and Horowitz murder mystery series.

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April 26, 2024
Weekly Economic New Roundup and Captcha costs
April 26, 2024
What a Captcha Costs Us

Having begun as a relatively simple way to prove who is human, now escalating Captcha costs might be too high.

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