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April 2, 2023
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April 2, 2023
Our Most Up-to-Date Social Security Worries

With the newest Trustees Report, Social Security projections indicate the Congress might echo its 1983 negotiations.

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March 26, 2023
Zimbabwe's inflation
March 26, 2023
Where You Don’t Want To Be a Trillionaire

We could say that repeatedly, Zimbabwe's inflation rate is so high that their dollar cannot possibly be called money.

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March 22, 2023
March 22, 2023
How A Brand Is Powerful

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March 16, 2023
economic news roundup and California's Wealth Tax incentives
March 16, 2023
The Hidden Part of Our Pay

While the explicit part of workers' pay is in dollars, sometimes parts of our compensation package are somewhat hidden.

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March 14, 2023
Argentina's cryptocurrency preference
March 14, 2023
Argentina’s Preference For Crypto

With its gargantuian monetary and fiscal problems leading to hyperinflation and defaults, Argentina's preference for crypto has been growing.

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March 10, 2023
Our Weekly EconomicNews Roundup and China's growth rate
March 10, 2023
How Should We Measure China’s Economic Growth?

Doubting China's growth rate, economists use alternative figures or even satellite images rather than traditional GDP components.

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March 9, 2023
household responsibilitiesand household production
March 9, 2023
Why Household Production Needs a Price

Because "we treasure what we measure," adding household production to the GDP would boost the value of what most women do.

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March 8, 2023
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March 8, 2023
What a “K” Says About Starbucks

After the Great Recession, businesses engaged the premiumization that recognizies the split between high and low income households.

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February 24, 2023
February 24, 2023
The Surprising Ways that Governments Get Money

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February 15, 2023
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Social Security COLAS
February 15, 2023
How (NOT) To Reduce a Federal Budget

Faced with pension reform proposals, workers in France responded with protests that U.S. lawmakers surely want to avoid.

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February 14, 2023
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February 14, 2023
How Valentine’s Became a Chocolate and Card Day

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January 31, 2023
January 31, 2023
What Money Should Look (and Feel) Like

Perhaps unaware of the criteria for the most functional currency, Nigeria's new money designers might not have solved its old problems.

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