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May 11, 2021
S&P 500 bull markets
May 11, 2021
How Stock Market Performance Responds to Social Unrest

While investors are right when they express concern that stock market performance reacts to social unrest, the response varies.

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May 10, 2021
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May 10, 2021
How Reese’s Pieces Are Like Ray-Bans

With tectonic shifts in the TV and film business, movie product placement has remained a dependable marketing tool.

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May 9, 2021
Biden's spending proposals
May 9, 2021
Why Federal Spending Is Tough to Predict for Entitlement Programs

Looking back at Medicare and Medicaid, we can see why there are several versions of spending projections for the American Families Plan.

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May 8, 2021
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May 8, 2021
Our Weekly Economic News Roundup: From Big Tech to Little Gnomes

Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from impulse buying to vaccine sharing.

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May 7, 2021
Friday's e-links
May 7, 2021
May 2021 Friday’s e-links: A Big Tech Graphic

For May's e-links, we begin with a Washington Post article that presents a graphic history of big tech that shows how they grew so large.

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May 7, 2021
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May 7, 2021
Learn With Elaine: Banana Problems

Echoing what happened during the 1950s, banana problems with a spreading fungus mean we will again need a new kind of banana.

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May 7, 2021
hydration
May 7, 2021
Why Hydration Was Invented

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May 6, 2021
Economic News Roundup and vaccine vials
May 6, 2021
How Patents Create Vaccine Tradeoffs

To be sure that vaccine markets travel from the developed nations to developing economies, we might have to accept some costly tradeoffs.

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May 5, 2021
May 5, 2021
How the Pandemic Changed Our Impulse Buying

Staying at home during the pandemic, we have shifted our impulse buying from the supermarket to our online shopping cart.

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