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March 7, 2018
Weely Economic News Roundup and roller coaster economics
March 7, 2018
What Economists Say About Roller Coasters

In a top ten list of roller coaster economics, we can include everything from the cost of a kidney stone to world trade and queueing.

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March 6, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Millennials
March 6, 2018
How to Know If You Are a Millennial

Using a lens that divides us by generations, we can look more closely at Millennial characteristics to see how they differ from other age groups.

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March 5, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Maine's lobster exports
March 5, 2018
How a Steel Tariff Creates a Lobster Trap

As Canadian fisheries enjoy more business because a trade deal lowered the price of lobster exports, Maine's fisherman are suffering from lower sales.

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March 4, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and STEM
March 4, 2018
The Mystery of the STEM Paradox

Identifying the countries where women are more likely to select STEM (science, technology, engineering, math), scholars had some surprises.

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March 2, 2018
Weekly economic news roundup and plastic-free sustainability
March 2, 2018
Four Fantastic Charts That Tell What We Need to Know About the Plastic Problem

Store by store, through one aisle that has 700 items, the Dutch supermarket chain Ekoplaza will support sustainability with plastics-free grocery shopping.

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March 1, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Trump tariffs
March 1, 2018
What You Might Not Know About a Toilet Paper Shortage

For insight about why Taiwan's toilet paper shortage has created a panic, we just need to look at changes in supply and demand.

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February 28, 2018
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February 28, 2018
Why Night Owls and Early Birds Affect the GDP

Determined genetically, our sleep preferences as night owls, morning larks or neither could affect our productivity at work.

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February 27, 2018
Weekly economic news roundup and free trade for strawberries and chickens
February 27, 2018
What a Strawberry and a Chicken Say About Free Trade

More than governments negotiating agreements, free trade is about the variety of strawberries, chickens, pickup trucks and pencils that we can buy.

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February 26, 2018
Weekly economic news roundup and a paper jam and recession
February 26, 2018
How a Paper Jam is Like a Recession

Whether it's the paper in your copier machine or the goods and services in a market economy, flows and jams can be rather similar.

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February 25, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and :inflation rates and Lithuanian beer
February 25, 2018
The Hopportunity Cost of the Craft Beer Name Shortage

Craft brewery competition got tougher as the number of craft breweries went up and the number of available beer names went down.

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February 22, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Olympic figure skating music
February 22, 2018
New Figure Skating Music…But Who Pays?

Now that music with words can accompany Olympic figure skating, there is less classical music, more hip-hop and Beyoncé, and some questions about intellectual property rights.

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February 21, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and invading ride-share markets
February 21, 2018
What Uber Says About the Gender Pay Gap

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