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January 19, 2026
South African Electricity
January 19, 2026
Where Businesses Charge for a Charge

Affecting small and large businesses and even Trevor Noah's grandmother, electricity outages have been a South African problem.

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January 12, 2026
financial bubbles
January 12, 2026
How to Find a Bubble

Because trees cannot grow to the sky, financial bubbles display irrational enthusiasm and then prices that crash.

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December 19, 2025
Weekly Economic News Roundup and transportation infrastructure
December 19, 2025
How Highway Funding Is a Problem

With insufficient highway funding revenue, the federal government has decided to allow new ways for us to pay for our roads.

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December 8, 2025
free buses
December 8, 2025
Why There’s No Such Thing as a Free Bus

Just like there is no such thing as a free lunch, buses cannot be free but the benefits could outweigh the costs.

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August 31, 2025
transportation infrastructure
August 31, 2025
Why Our Roads Could Be Better

Graded domestically and compared to other countries, the U.S. transportation infrastructure needs an uptick.

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July 27, 2025
Wall Street acronyms
July 27, 2025
When Is a Dork Like a Fang?

While high performing stocks come and go, we can remember them through the acronyms that Wall Street analysts create.

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July 7, 2025
S&P 500 bull markets
July 7, 2025
Why the Dow Jones Industrial Average Is More Than a Number

More than a number, the Dow Jones Industrial Average provides information about the past, present, and future of our economy.

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July 4, 2025
Weekly Economic News Roundup and economic independence from Alexander Hamilton
July 4, 2025
Why We Have Economic Independence

On this 2025 Independence Day, we can look back at the economic independence that Alexander Hamilton created.

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June 3, 2025
traffic congestion solutions
June 3, 2025
How Water Can Reduce Traffic Congestion

As the city with the worst traffic congestion in the world, Lagos, Nigeria will be developing a unique solution.

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May 8, 2025
small inventions
May 8, 2025
What a Phone Booth Tells Us

Looking at product history, we can see how goods and services are tangible signposts that identify economic growth.

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March 30, 2025
traffic congestion from SUVs
March 30, 2025
The Surprising Impact of the SUV

To reduce traffic congestion, one surprising cause can be added to inadequate mass transit and population sprawl.

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February 23, 2025
postal service
February 23, 2025
What a Mail Truck Means

From the first postal service to now, and horses to mail trucks, mail delivery has always added to our information infrastructure.

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