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July 13, 2023
Weekly Economic News Roundup and trendy food history
July 13, 2023
The Highs and Lows of Trendy Food

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May 23, 2023
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Claudia Goldin
May 23, 2023
An Unintended Consequence From a Nobel Prize

A story that takes us to a Nobel Prize winner, an airpoirt, and some smiles winds up with some uninytended consequences.

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December 1, 2022
Super Bowl absentees
December 1, 2022
What a Sports Team Will Cost You

While we can cite a long list of reasons that sports team prices are in the stratosphere, just one stands out.

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November 9, 2022
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November 9, 2022
What Your Name Could Say About Your Politics

In a list of the many ways that we communicate our political preferences, baby names could be near the top.

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September 25, 2022
multigenerational work
September 25, 2022
How the Generations Differ at Work

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September 16, 2022
Friday's e-links
September 16, 2022
September 2022 Friday’s e-links: Some Very Interesting Recent Russian History

Continuing with our September e-links, I wanted to recommend a recent Russian history book that, rather than a slog, is really a good read.

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August 2, 2022
Weekly Economic News Roundup and airplane etiquette
August 2, 2022
Why Overbooked Fliers Are Like the Google IPO

An airline's overbooking solutions can be called a Dutch auction when fliers decide what their ticket is worth.

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May 18, 2022
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May 18, 2022
India’s AC Tradeoffs

When we combine a record breaking heat wave in India with an increasingly affluent population, we wind up with AC dilemmas.

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May 6, 2022
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May 6, 2022
A Short Tax (Form) Story

Occupying billions of hours and dollars, tax preparation in the United States could be much simpler if we just copied Estonia.

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May 5, 2022
May 5, 2022
Why New Jersey’s Plastic Bag Ban Might Create the “Cobra Effect”

With New Jersey's new paper and plastic bag bans, we can ask if the regulations will have the unintended consequence of the "Cobra Effect."

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February 25, 2022
Economic News Roundup and renewables energy use
February 25, 2022
Our Mind Boggling Energy Use Totals

Tough to imagine and yet crucial for thinking of the future, the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory shares a handy energy use total infographic.

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January 17, 2022
January 17, 2022
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