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December 15, 2022
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Comparing LEGO prices
December 15, 2022
What We Can Learn (About Money) From a LEGO

Like the Big Mac Index, when the Toy Zone tells us where LEGO prices are high and low, we can also compare currencies.

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August 26, 2022
big Mac prices
August 26, 2022
What We Can Learn From a Big Mac

Through its twice-yearly Big Mac Index, The Economist shows us what we can learn locally and globally from burger economics.

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August 23, 2022
Weekly Economic News Roundup and perverse incentives
August 23, 2022
A New Way To Measure the GDP

We can identify new GDP facts about size and wellbeing by seeing the GDP through the PPP lens of the International Comparison Program.

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August 11, 2022
slowing pizza sales
August 11, 2022
How Italians Feel About Pineapple Pizza

Domino's, Mondelēz, and IKEA each had a different lessons to learn from their globalization decisions for Italy, China, and Saudi Arabia.

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July 27, 2022
economic news roundup and regressive tariffs
July 27, 2022
Why Tariffs Are Unfair

Hit harder by regressive tariffs, the poor pay more than the affluent because history has not been corrected.

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July 20, 2022
Weekly Economic News Roundup and oreo dunk
July 20, 2022
When a Pillow Is Like an Oreo

In international markets, businesses need to recognize local preferences when they sell products beyond home borders.

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June 8, 2022
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Comparing LEGO prices
June 8, 2022
The Great Lego Spill

Because of a huge wave and massive container ships, we wound up with a gargantuan number of Lego pieces becoming The Great Lego Spill.

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June 6, 2022
chicken export nationalism
June 6, 2022
Playing Chicken With Export Nationalism

Because of Malaysia's export nationalism, Singapore's consumers could face shortages of their beloved chicken rice dish.

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March 17, 2022
economic news roundup and farmer protests
March 17, 2022
Why We Worry About the World’s Wheat

Facing war, wild fires, draught, and port blockages, the world wheat supply will have difficulty compensating for shortages.

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December 30, 2021
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December 30, 2021
Checking On China: US-China Phase One Trade Tracker 2021

Looking at the Peterson Institute's 2021 numbers for the first phase of the US-China Trade Deal, we can see if the agreement is working.

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December 20, 2021
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December 20, 2021
The Tangles in Our Supply Chain

Globally creating supply chain tangles, the pandemic produced labor shortages and shipping distortions that the system couldn't handle.

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December 17, 2021
container ship fuel costs
December 17, 2021
Six (More) Facts About World Trade

Through our world trade update, we can look at trade partners, states, shipping containers and even giant cranes.

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