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September 26, 2019
de minimis exemption
September 26, 2019
Throwback Thursday: When We Got Amazon Prime

#TBT: Looking back to the creation of Amazon Prime, we see we've come a long way from what we used to expect when we ordered online.

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September 18, 2019
eekly Economic News Roundup and check use
September 18, 2019
Why Our Earnings Are Not What They Seem to Be

Ranging from barely budging to a 32 percent increase, the ups and downs of average hourly earnings can be debated, depending on your numbers.

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September 17, 2019
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September 17, 2019
The Problem With Vegan Names

With plant-based foods growing like weeds, we have to decide if their vegan names should reflect the foods that they resemble.

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September 16, 2019
manufacturing jobs
September 16, 2019
The Manufacturing Jobs That Are Disappearing

Through the excellent Netflix documentary, "American Factory," and Bureau of Labor Force projections, we can see disappearing manufacturing jobs.

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September 12, 2019
banking collapse facts
September 12, 2019
What You Might Not Know About Debt

We might find some surprises when we look closely at categories of consumer debt that include credit cards, student and auto loans, and mortgages.

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September 9, 2019
healthcare costs
September 9, 2019
How Healthcare Is Like Car Repair

To explain why healthcare costs are increasing, we can just look at Beethoven's String Quartet #14 and Baumol's Cost Disease.

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September 6, 2019
luck or skill
September 6, 2019
Deciding Which Matters: Luck or Skill

For fantasy sports games to be legal in states where online gambling was prohibited, they had to prove whether luck or skill mattered more.

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September 4, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and what we eat
September 4, 2019
What We Eat and What We Waste

Finding out what we eat, what we waste, and what we spend on our food can depend on the decade we look at and when we were born.

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September 3, 2019
digital distraction
September 3, 2019
When To Ignore Your Email

Tempted by thousands of hours of digital distractions, at home and at work, we diminish our creativity, our productivity, and our self-satisfaction.

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August 28, 2019
weekly economic news roundup and women's wealth
August 28, 2019
Six Facts About Women’s Wealth in the World

While women's wealth in the world has been trending upwards, a look at the estimates in the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report 2018 reveals the gaps.

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August 27, 2019
traffic congestion
August 27, 2019
The Connection Between Traffic Jams and Jobs

As the downside of low unemployment, traffic congestion can have an invisible cost that relates to time, gas, and aggravation.

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August 25, 2019
North Korean economy
August 25, 2019
What North Korean Workers Did With Their Choco Pies

While the North Korean economy is centrally planned, the Choco Pie is a tiny example of the how a market system develops.

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