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January 8, 2021
Economic News Roundup and Dow Industrial Average
January 8, 2021
Why Recent Stock Market Fluctuations Are Tough To Explain

Looking at a Covid-19 time table, economic fundamentals, and economic uncertainty, we can try to explain recent stock market fluctuations.

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December 28, 2020
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December 28, 2020
Why We Need to Know About the Cupcake Bubble

Long gone, but still here in many ways, the cupcake bubble is a timeless story about more than decadent food.

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September 18, 2020
Economic News Roundup and LEGOs secondary markets Millennium Falcon
September 18, 2020
Where LEGO is More Than a Toy

Instead of spending hours or even days constructing a multi-thousand piece set, many thousnads of people prefer investing in LEGOs.

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March 15, 2020
weekly economic roundup bull and bear markets
March 15, 2020
Looking at the Bulls and the Bears

Looking at the ups and downs of bull and bear markets takes us to the past and present Dow Industrial Average and the S&P 500.

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February 28, 2020
Weekly Economic News Roundup and black swans and gray rhinos
February 28, 2020
Understanding Coronavirus as a Black Swan Event

Looking at coronavirus as a Black Swan Event, we can better grasp its predictability, its impact, and its similarly to other exceptional crises.

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December 26, 2019
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December 26, 2019
Throwback Thursday: From Dutch Tulips to New York Cupcakes

TBT: Looking at financial bubbles, we could see that stock markets, cupcakes, tulip bulbs, and real estate have a lot in common.

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December 22, 2019
Eddie Murphy Rule
December 22, 2019
Why The Eddie Murphy Rule is About More Than Orange Juice

Because of a wonderful orange juice scam in "Trading Places," the Eddie Murphy Rule wound up in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulation act.

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December 8, 2019
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December 8, 2019
Why It’s Tough to Make Stock Market Predictions

The long term increase of the S&P 500 and the Dow Industrials misleadingly entices investors to believe that it's easy to make stock market predictions.

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April 11, 2019
the GDP and marijuana
April 11, 2019
Banking on Marijuana

Reflected by duffle bags filled with cash, marijuana's financial services problems demonstrate why we need banks and other financial intermediaries.

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March 31, 2019
economic news roundup and college graduation
March 31, 2019
A New Product That Pays For College

Like other new goods and services that people invent, the Income Sharing Agreement (ISA) is a financial innovation that pays for college tuition.

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March 11, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and oil facts
March 11, 2019
How Norway Avoided Dutch Disease

Avoided by Norway, Dutch disease is contracted by nations that let a commodity windfall dominate what they produce and spend.

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March 10, 2019
economic news roundup and working hours
March 10, 2019
Why Times Should Change

Deciding whether to spring forward to DST and fall back relates to a bigger debate about coordinating time throughout the United States.

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