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March 19, 2018
Adam Smith laissez-faire
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 18, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Bitcoin mining
March 18, 2018
Plattsburgh’s Bitcoin Problem

With Plattsburgh, New York's cheap electricity attracting Bitcoin miners, the city has to figure out how to cut their power usage.

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March 13, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and oil facts
March 13, 2018
Why It’s Tough for OPEC to Fight the Frackers

The OPEC nations are having a tough time deciding what oil price to target because it all depends on how U.S. shale oil producers will respond.

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March 9, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and EU budget battle
March 9, 2018
What Brexit Will Do to the EU Budget

About more than the U.K., Brexit also creates EU budget problems because of the 10 to 12 billion euros that the British will no longer give annually.

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March 8, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Sneaker production
March 8, 2018
The One Thing We Should Know About Making Sneakers

With consumers expecting faster product cycles, Adidas is experimenting with a new supply chain that accelerates sneaker production.

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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 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
sleep time
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 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 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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February 20, 2018
China's GDP
February 20, 2018
What a High Social Score Can Get You in China

In 2020, China will have implemented a social score program that will use behavioral inputs to decide which goods and services residents can access.

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