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February 6, 2026
Friday's e-links
February 6, 2026
February 2026 Friday’s e-links: Surprises From the Sewing Machine

Continuing with our February e-links, this week we recommend a podcast that returns us to the 19th century invention that liberated women.

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February 6, 2026
Weekly Economic News Roundup and parking chairs and winter dibs and private property
February 6, 2026
Why Don’t We Sit In Parking Chairs?

Heavy snow always brings with it the debate over Winter Dibs and our right to use parking chairs to preserve shoveled parking spaces.

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February 5, 2026
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Southwest airline boarding
February 5, 2026
How Boarding Makes a Difference

With Southwest making the gobsmacking switch to assigned seats, airline boarding has been in the news again.

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February 4, 2026
Cocoa bean price plunge
February 4, 2026
Where We Have To Define Candy

Recent legislative changes have affected our food stamp program called SNAP and also the definition of candy.

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February 3, 2026
transportation spending
February 3, 2026
Where a Road Matters

While the roads component of a transportation infrastruction matters everywhere, the GDP boost is especially high in developing nations.

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February 2, 2026
grade inflation classroom
February 2, 2026
Why Grade Inflation Is Tough To Tame

Dealing with a grade inflation problem that most schools experience, Harvard has announced several suggestions for its faculty.

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February 1, 2026
China's GDP
February 1, 2026
Where to Find a Directive GDP

Knowing that China's GDP statistical approach is different from the U.S. can let us compare the two more realistically.

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January 31, 2026
economic news roundup
January 31, 2026
Our Weekly Economic News Roundup: From Piles of Potatoes to Hot Sauce Heat

Connecting economics, current events and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from the minimimum wage to snowstorm spending.

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January 30, 2026
Friday's e-links
January 30, 2026
January 2026 Friday’s e-links: The Mayor’s New Jackets

Concluding our January e-links, we look at two articles that connect New York's new Mayor's clothing to behavioral economics.

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