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June 2, 2026
Weekly Economic News Roundup and paying for the social welfare state
June 2, 2026
Who Pays for a Welfare State?

Debating higher taxes on the most affluent, we can take a new look at who should pay for and who receives the benefits from a welfare state.

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November 10, 2025
beef prices
November 10, 2025
How a Tariff Can Kill a Cow

Distorting a market response, a U.S. tariff on Swiss dairy items changes how farmers will respond to a milk glut.

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November 4, 2025
Weekly Economic News Roundup and economic systems
November 4, 2025
How Does Democratic Socialism Compare to Other Economic Systems?

Including the democratic socialistism that has been in the news, we should take a look at the meaning of different economic systems.

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September 10, 2025
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September 10, 2025
What We Really Mean By Socialism (and Capitalism)

When Gallup tells us that Americans have a diminished opinion of capitalism, we should look more closely at economic systems.

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June 20, 2024
Weekly Economic Roundup and China's economic growth
June 20, 2024
Where To Find China’s Economic Model

Functioning from the top down, China's economic model is very different from a market system's bottom-up characteristics.

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February 16, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and the economy and democracy
February 16, 2024
Why the Economy and Democracy Still Need Each Other

From the Economist's EIU group and Pew Research, we can gain insight about the connection between the economy and democracy.

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January 22, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and lunar time
January 22, 2024
Why the Moon Race Reminds Us of Instacart

In a new moon race this year, five private companies' lunar landers were supposed to transport NASA devices to the moon.

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August 11, 2023
Our Weekly Economic News Roundup and Russian boycott bacardi
August 11, 2023
Why Russia Still Has Rum

As one of several hundred companies not observing the Russian boycott, Bacardi was included in a list from the Yale School of Management.

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January 20, 2023
Friday's e-links
January 20, 2023
January 2023 Friday’s e-links: Knowing When You Are In a Bubble

Continuing with our January e-links, we recommend a Tim Harford podcast that tells us all we need to know about a bubble.

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January 17, 2023
the Russian McDonald's
January 17, 2023
What We Can Learn From the Russian McDonald’s Replacement

McDonald's arrival in Russia during 1990 and now, its departure reflect the power of the market and the constraints of central planning.

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November 17, 2022
Weekly Economic News Roundup and beef croquette allocation
November 17, 2022
How Beef Croquettes Are Like National Parks

Whether asking about the allocation of beef croquettes or national park reservations, the answers take us to the three economic systems.

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March 10, 2022
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Communist economies
March 10, 2022
What Levi’s Jeans Tell Us About Russian Sanctions

Trying to copy Levi's, the East German government's problems with Communist jeans illustrated why East Germany and Russia need Western goods.

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