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July 12, 2017
GDP monitor
July 12, 2017
A New Way To Take Our Economic Pulse

Economists become somewhat similar to weather men and women when their GDP monitor is a nowcast that forecasts the present.

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July 11, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Saudi woman Manal al-Shafif
July 11, 2017
How Women Could Elevate the Saudi GDP

Far more than constraining Saudi women, Saudi Arabia's discrimination diminishes the entire economy's production possibilities.

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July 4, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and economic independence from Alexander Hamilton
July 4, 2017
Celebrating Economic Independence

Looking at Hamilton economics through his development plan and now, we can see so very clearly why he can be called the father of our economy.

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June 5, 2017
Weekly economic news roundup and adolescent sleep time
June 5, 2017
A Wake Up Call for High School Principals

At 8 am or earlier, the average high school start time could diminish adolescent math and reading cognition because of sleep deprivation.

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June 2, 2017
weekly economc news roundup and misleading statistics
June 2, 2017
Questions About Popeye and Misleading Statistics

Precise numbers can become misleading statistics when politicians, journalists and scholars use them for jobs projections and GDP totals.

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May 16, 2017
Weekly economic news roundup and standardized dress sizes
May 16, 2017
The Rise and Fall of Standardized Dress Sizes in the U.S.

Whereas we know the size of an inch and a mile, standardized dress sizes were developed and then abandoned in the United States.

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May 3, 2017
Chinese economic growth
May 3, 2017
Enlightening Measures of China’s Growth

Economists can use nighttime lights from NASA's satellite images of the earth to decide if China's economic growth statistics are accurate.

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May 2, 2017
defining old
May 2, 2017
A New Kind of (Japanese) Stress

Requiring shorter refrigerators and adult diapers, Japan's aging population is creating demographic stress as their numbers grow.

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April 25, 2017
China's GDP
April 25, 2017
How Affluence Relates to Pollution

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April 13, 2017
healthcare costs
April 13, 2017
The Jobs That Unemployed Men Don’t Want

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March 13, 2017
Weekly economic news roundup daylight saving time dilemmas
March 13, 2017
Daylight Saving Time Dilemmas

Last weekend, our daylight saving time dilemmas began again as we lost an hour of sleep but gained evening time to shop, exercise and go to athletic events.

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March 7, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and wine production
March 7, 2017
How EU Regulation Deals With Blue Wine

Surprisingly significant, the EU's opposition to blue wine reflects how regulation constrains the innovation that creates productivity and economic growth.

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