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October 1, 2017
Poland's butter prices
October 1, 2017
All You Never Knew About Denmark’s Fat Tax

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September 24, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Medicare worries
September 24, 2017
Choosing the Best Healthcare Country

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September 21, 2017
inflation facts
September 21, 2017
What Your Phone Says About How You Spend Your Money

Knowing that statisticians suggest iPhone users tend to be more affluent than Android owners, we can hypothesize how their spending differs.

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September 13, 2017
prescription spending
September 13, 2017
The Opioid Epidemic and the Labor Force

By looking at counties with more opioid prescriptions, we can understand one reason that labor force participation rates are declining.

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September 12, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and government shutdown
September 12, 2017
What Technology Entrepreneurs Want From Government

With Silicon Valley being called a massive ATM, researchers looked at the opinions of elite technology entrepreneurs to see their political influence.

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July 31, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and federal spending
July 31, 2017
Connecting Medicaid Expansion to the Divorce Rate

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion and subsequent Supreme Court decision had a surprising impact the divorce rate.

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May 24, 2017
Weekly economic news roundup and parking lots and healthcare costs incentives
May 24, 2017
How Your Parking Lot and Your Medical Care Could Be Similar

Our healthcare costs and parking lot spending are influenced by similar incentives that involve paying per visit or with a lump sum for unlimited use.

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

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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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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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March 13, 2017
Weekly economic news roundup daylight saving time dilemmas
March 13, 2017
Daylight Saving Time Dilemmas

Last weekend, our daylight saving time dilemmas began again as we lost an hour of sleep but gained evening time to shop, exercise and go to athletic events.

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March 12, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and federal spending
March 12, 2017
The Decline of Laissez-Faire

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