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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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January 21, 2024
forgotten subscriptions
January 21, 2024
Why Subscriptions Might Never End

Behavioral economics can explain why forgotten subscriptions have become an increasingly typical phenomenon.

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January 17, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and choosing a movie
January 17, 2024
Why Netflix Makes Choosing Easier

Netflix makes choosing a movie easier because we get exhausted from contemplating countless possibilities.

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January 16, 2024
how we spend money
January 16, 2024
Why We Want a New Kind of Ice

Knowing that we can find entrepreneurs in the most unexpected places, we should look in Dubai's bars for glacial ice cubes.

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January 11, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Medicare worries
January 11, 2024
A Second Case of Dutch Disease

We could say that Denmark's bigger GDP comes from the massive success of drugs from Novo Nordisk that make us smaller.

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January 7, 2024
ageing populations
January 7, 2024
Why Future Grandmas Should Worry

Ranking the global retirements systems of 47 countries, a group in Australia placed . the Netherlands at the top.

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January 5, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and recovering the cash
January 5, 2024
When the Dog Ate the Money

When your dog makes a meal of your money, you can ask if chewed up cash can be rescued by depositing it at the bank.

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January 4, 2024
economic news roundup and assortative dating
January 4, 2024
What an Economist Says About a 59 Million Dollar Wedding

Knowing that prices convey information, we can assume that a $59 million wedding is an example of Thorstein Veblen's conspicuous consumption.

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January 2, 2024
changing job markets and bank robbers
January 2, 2024
How Our New Year’s Resolutions Have Changed

Seeing that our New Year's resolutions have changed since last year, we have to figure out new devices to keep them.

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December 31, 2023
economic news roundup and working hours
December 31, 2023
How Times Change

Determining all time changes, countries each decide how New Year's celebrations ripple from one country to the next.

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December 29, 2023
Weekly Economic News Roundup and tariff impact
December 29, 2023
A Tale of Two Canals

Although caused by entirely different reasons, Suez and Panama Canal problems together have shifted supply curves.

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December 28, 2023
Our Weekly Economic News Roundup and comparing wages
December 28, 2023
What Money Means

Recent surveys that have looked at money's value display it has become more important while traditional values are slipping.

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