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August 6, 2017
highly skilled women and low-skilled immigrants
August 6, 2017
How Low-Skilled Immigrants Support Highly Skilled Women

In additional to debating the impact of immigration on less educated men, we should look at how highly skilled women are affected.

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August 1, 2017
egg prices
August 1, 2017
How Egg Markets Are Scrambled

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July 31, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and federal spending
July 31, 2017
Connecting Medicaid Expansion to the Divorce Rate

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion and subsequent Supreme Court decision had a surprising impact the divorce rate.

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July 23, 2017
economic recovery
July 23, 2017
Not Quite a Goldilocks Recovery

To decide the strength of our economic recovery since the Great Recession, we can use seven numbers or just one that might be most important.

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July 21, 2017
making money
July 21, 2017
Deciding What is Real Money

While intuitively, we know the characteristics of money, when we receive a bent coin or a half of a dollar bill, we might wonder if we can spend it.

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July 14, 2017
Weekly economic news roundup and the IKEA Effect
July 14, 2017
Why the IKEA Effect is About Much More Than Furniture

Rippling far beyond furniture assembly, the IKEA Effect can determine how we value what we construct and cook at home, and design at work.

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July 13, 2017
Weekly economic news roundup and Veblen Goods Tiffany
July 13, 2017
Throwback Thursday: Looking Back at the Tiffany Brand

Shifting from Audrey Hepburn elegance to Lady Gaga, the Tiffany brand has a new face to market its luxury image and its Veblen goods.

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July 12, 2017
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July 12, 2017
A New Way To Take Our Economic Pulse

Economists become somewhat similar to weather men and women when their GDP monitor is a nowcast that forecasts the present.

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July 9, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup financial decisions and red print
July 9, 2017
The Surprising Impact of Seeing Red

Making financial decisions, we might take more or less risk because of the color of the print in our documents and charts.

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July 6, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and French baguette competition
July 6, 2017
Throwback Thursday: Before the Baguette Crisis

Seeing the impact of French baguette deregulation, we can look back at the days when government guaranteed Paris's bread supply.

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July 3, 2017
traffic lights and Adam Smith's Laissez-faire
July 3, 2017
Using Adam Smith to Cross the Road

Wondering why cars happily stop to let pedestrians cross the road on an island without traffic lights, we can find an answer from Adam Smith.

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June 28, 2017
Weekly economic news roundup and China's social scoring system
June 28, 2017
How a Social Score Gets You China’s Goods and Services

As China's social scoring system develops, undesirable behavior like jaywalking could limit someone's access to goods and services.

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