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March 29, 2018
overfishing
March 29, 2018
How Your Fish Can Signal Your Wealth

By purchasing an adult fish for thousands of dollars, the buyers of an Asian arowana were engaging in conspicuous consumption.

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March 26, 2018
household spending
March 26, 2018
Why the Retail Apocalypse Could Be a Renaissance

Even with mall traffic declining and stores closing, retail restructuring might lead to a renaissance fueled by creative destruction rather than an apocalypse.

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March 19, 2018
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March 19, 2018
A 2018 Update: The World’s Top and Bottom Laissez-Faire Countries

The Index of Economic Freedom is a handy source of data for judging whether or not a government has a laissez-faire philosophy.

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March 14, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and soggy French fries
March 14, 2018
McDonald’s Soggy French Fries Problem

Because of their new delivery partnership with UberEats, McDonald's has a soggy French fries problem that they need to solve.

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March 12, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and pizza box recycling
March 12, 2018
Using Pizza to Understand the Trade Deficit

We can look at pizza take-out to see why a trade deficit involves much more than spending more on the imports you buy than the exports you sell.

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March 11, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Prisoners' Dilemma
March 11, 2018
Why Daylight Saving Time is Good For Us

With Daylight Saving Time (DST) having just begun, we might find that shifting sunlight from the morning to the evening has made us safer.

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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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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 14, 2018
economic news roundup and assortative dating
February 14, 2018
What Men and Women Want in a Mate

By identifying the decisions that men and women make while speed dating, we can see where they rank intelligence, attractiveness and ambition.

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February 12, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Columbia's Valentine's roses
February 12, 2018
Why Valentine’s Roses Bloom in Colombia

Most of our Valentine's roses come from Colombia because of the U.S. government, the perfect combination of land, labor and capital, and Walmart.

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February 4, 2018
economic news roundup and U.S. trading partners
February 4, 2018
How to Make a NAFTA Burger

Deconstructing your hamburger and French fries, you would see how NAFTA benefits consumers with lower prices for each ingredient.

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