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June 8, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and quantitative easing
June 8, 2017
Throwback Thursday: The Best Banking Regulation

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June 7, 2017
Weekly economic news roundup and traffic apps
June 7, 2017
Why It’s Tough to Solve Traffic Congestion

While the traffic congestion problem in NYC, LA and D.C. wastes huge time and money, they do not appear to want to solve it.

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May 19, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and beer consumption
May 19, 2017
The Economic Significance of Alcohol Consumption

While it is relatively easy to measure how much alcohol consumption varies among countries, identifying a direct economic impact is much tougher.

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May 16, 2017
Weekly economic news roundup and standardized dress sizes
May 16, 2017
The Rise and Fall of Standardized Dress Sizes in the U.S.

Whereas we know the size of an inch and a mile, standardized dress sizes were developed and then abandoned in the United States.

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April 26, 2017
weekly economic news roundup and beginning of the t-shirt supply chain
April 26, 2017
A Tale of Two T-Shirts

Covering 500 or so miles, a made-in-America t-shirt supply chain can be very different from a globally sourced t-shirt that travels more than 15,000 miles.

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April 21, 2017
E-cigarette tax
April 21, 2017
Where Smokers Smuggle Cigarettes

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April 10, 2017
Space debris
April 10, 2017
Why Meteorite Ownership Matters

While it can be tough to decide who owns a meteorite, in China and the U.S., those "intergalactic" property rights matter since they determine who profits.

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April 9, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Medicare worries
April 9, 2017
Debating the Success of U.S. Healthcare

When ranking national healthcare, organizations use statistics that can be misleading because they are based on averages that include irrelevant data.

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April 4, 2017
Weekly economic news roundup and a protective tariff
April 4, 2017
Why the U.S. Government Cares About a Snuggie

Deciding whether Snuggies is a blanket or a pullover garment is about more than a name. The outcome decided the protective tariff it would owe.

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April 3, 2017
Biden's spending proposals
April 3, 2017
Understanding the Big Numbers in the Federal Budget

Judging the Trump blueprint for the federal budget, we need to figure out how to compare trillion dollar totals to billion dollar proposals.

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March 29, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and sharing economy dilemmas'
March 29, 2017
A New Meaning For Food Court

Like Uber and Airbnb, the growing popularity of Eat With Stranger Apps (EWSAs) is creating sharing economy dilemmas that relate to regulation.

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March 26, 2017
Pet Economic Indicators
March 26, 2017
What Pets Can Teach Us About Healthcare Spending

We cannot avoid unintended consequences from healthcare legislation because healthcare spending has no "one-size-fits-all" solution.

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