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January 5, 2015
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January 5, 2015
All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Economics

Explained by Alfred Marshall and evident at restaurant buffet tables, the idea of diminishing marginal utility shows how marginal analysis is valuable.

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January 4, 2015
Weekly Economic News Roundup and beer consumption
January 4, 2015
What a Blind Taste Test Showed About Beer

Behavioral economic ideas show that product differentiation and consumer preference are more from branding than the taste of colas or beers.

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January 3, 2015
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January 3, 2015
Weekly Roundup: From Marijuana to the Metric System

Our everyday economics include globalization, opportunity cost, inflation, employment, monetary policy, negative externalities, recession, business cycle.

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January 2, 2015
Housing problems foreshadow business cycle contractions.
January 2, 2015
A Short Version of the Housing Crisis Story

Problems in the housing market frequently signal a contraction in the business cycle as they did through the subprime mortgage crisis.

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January 1, 2015
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January 1, 2015
Economic Humor: The Top Ten Ways To Sound Like An Economist

A top ten list for sounding like an economist is economic humor that might come in handy.

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December 30, 2014
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December 30, 2014
One Song, Two Graphs and the Fed’s Dual Mandate

Because the Congress established a dual mandate of high employment and price stability for the Federal Reserve's monetary policy, they created a dilemma.

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December 29, 2014
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Medicare worries
December 29, 2014
The Cost of Curing Different Diseases

Whether health insurance or individuals pay for healthcare, treatment decisions relate to the opportunity cost of using the time, money and resources.

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December 28, 2014
Everyday econ omics and the metric switch
December 28, 2014
Why the Metric Switch is so Tough

The expense and complexities of switching to the metric system have prevented the change, and have affected how standard weights and measures help globalization.

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December 27, 2014
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December 27, 2014
Weekly Roundup: From Slow Shopping to Fast Shipping

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