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August 7, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and gender pay gap
August 7, 2018
Why We Have Fewer Female CEOs

With Indra Nooyi leaving PepsiCo, we have even fewer female CEOs of major corporations who can change expectations about male leadership.

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August 3, 2018
Apple's finances
August 3, 2018
U.S. Steel and Apple: From One Billion to One Trillion

Rather like Apple just became the first trillion dollar corporation, in 1901 U.S. Steel took us past the billion dollar threshold.

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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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December 15, 2017
PB&J sandwich rights
December 15, 2017
How Many Peanuts Are in Real Peanut Butter?

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December 1, 2017
digitization
December 1, 2017
A Closer Look at the Digitization in Our Lives

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November 27, 2017
NYS sandwich taxes
November 27, 2017
Everything You Never Knew About the Sandwich

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September 28, 2017
Trading Places and markets
September 28, 2017
A Florida Orange Juice Squeeze

On one side of the Florida orange industry, we have shrinking orange juice demand while on the other, citrus greening and Irma have struck.

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June 30, 2017
iPhones and global supply chains
June 30, 2017
Lessons From the App Economy

Tracing the history of the app economy from the surprising first million dollar app to today, we would see how similar it is to a simple pencil.

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June 15, 2017
household spending
June 15, 2017
Throwback Thursday: Missing the Mall

With shopping malls closing, we can look back at why they first began and why their design was a revolutionary innovation.

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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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April 28, 2017
the McRib
April 28, 2017
Managing the McRib

Knowing that McRib supply is not predictable, the fans of the pork, barbecue sauce, onions and pickle sandwich are delighted whenever it resurfaces.

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April 20, 2017
Weekly economic news roundup and manufacturing socks
April 20, 2017
What a Sock Can Teach Us

Manufacturing Socks in a Regional Cluster Helps Firms to Optimize Production

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