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April 12, 2025
economic news roundup
April 12, 2025
Our Weekly Economic News Roundup: From Less Meat to More Babies

Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from disappearing jobs to a rare earth primer.

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April 11, 2025
Friday's e-links
April 11, 2025
April 2025 Friday’s e-links: Supermarket Economics

Continuing with our April e-links, I recommend the one podcast that I enjoyed this week because it conveyed some supermarket economics.

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April 11, 2025
Weekly Economic News Roundup and rare earth elements dysprosium
April 11, 2025
What We Need To Know About Rare Earth Elements (and Especially Dysprosium)

By focusing on the globe's 17 rare earth elements, we can see what they are, where to find them, and how to get them.

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April 10, 2025
Weekly Economic News Roundup and World Trade Organization and normal trade wars
April 10, 2025
How Do We Fight Normal Trade Wars?

Looking back at Brazil and cotton, and the EU and bananas, we can see how the WTO helps us fight normal trade wars.

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April 9, 2025
economic news roundup and Apple's supply chain
April 9, 2025
How Flexible Is Apple’s Supply Chain?

To move Apple's massive supply chain to the United States, it would have to re-coordinate more than 600 component producers.

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April 8, 2025
beef prices
April 8, 2025
The Problem With Eating Less Meat

Animal economics is about a slew of tradeoffs when we tryi to reduce our carbon imprint with less meat consumption.

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April 7, 2025
manufacturing jobs
April 7, 2025
Why Did Manufacturing Decline?

Looking at the steady slide in the number of U.S. manufacturing jobs, we see structural change with several causes.

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April 6, 2025
China's child policy and milk consumption
April 6, 2025
How China’s Child Policy Could Have Helped the U.S.

With new trade incentives, China's increased demand for dairy product subsidies from its new child policy won't support U.S. firms.

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April 5, 2025
economic news roundup
April 5, 2025
Our Weekly Economic News Roundup: From SUVs to Pot Prices

Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from beavers and inflation to home runs.

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