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March 13, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and oil facts
March 13, 2018
Why It’s Tough for OPEC to Fight the Frackers

The OPEC nations are having a tough time deciding what oil price to target because it all depends on how U.S. shale oil producers will respond.

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March 12, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and pizza box recycling
March 12, 2018
Using Pizza to Understand the Trade Deficit

We can look at pizza take-out to see why a trade deficit involves much more than spending more on the imports you buy than the exports you sell.

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March 11, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Prisoners' Dilemma
March 11, 2018
Why Daylight Saving Time is Good For Us

With Daylight Saving Time (DST) having just begun, we might find that shifting sunlight from the morning to the evening has made us safer.

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March 10, 2018
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March 10, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup: From STEM Stories to Lobster Tales

Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from sneaker manufacturing and steel tariffs to a Brexit problem.

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March 9, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and EU budget battle
March 9, 2018
What Brexit Will Do to the EU Budget

About more than the U.K., Brexit also creates EU budget problems because of the 10 to 12 billion euros that the British will no longer give annually.

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March 8, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Sneaker production
March 8, 2018
The One Thing We Should Know About Making Sneakers

With consumers expecting faster product cycles, Adidas is experimenting with a new supply chain that accelerates sneaker production.

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March 7, 2018
Weely Economic News Roundup and roller coaster economics
March 7, 2018
What Economists Say About Roller Coasters

In a top ten list of roller coaster economics, we can include everything from the cost of a kidney stone to world trade and queueing.

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March 6, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Millennials
March 6, 2018
How to Know If You Are a Millennial

Using a lens that divides us by generations, we can look more closely at Millennial characteristics to see how they differ from other age groups.

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March 5, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Maine's lobster exports
March 5, 2018
How a Steel Tariff Creates a Lobster Trap

As Canadian fisheries enjoy more business because a trade deal lowered the price of lobster exports, Maine's fisherman are suffering from lower sales.

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