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June 10, 2017
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June 10, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup: From Ice Cream Scoops to Traffic Jams

Linking economics, current events and history, our weekly economic news roundup includes a good banking law, Japan's population problems, and sleep insight.

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June 9, 2017
national park overcrowding
June 9, 2017
Solving a National Parks Problem

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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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June 6, 2017
ice cream consumption
June 6, 2017
The Exciting Side of Vanilla Economics

If your ice cream cone costs more this summer, just think of supply and demand and Madagascar's soaring vanilla bean prices.

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June 5, 2017
Weekly economic news roundup and adolescent sleep time
June 5, 2017
A Wake Up Call for High School Principals

At 8 am or earlier, the average high school start time could diminish adolescent math and reading cognition because of sleep deprivation.

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June 4, 2017
high and low birth rates
June 4, 2017
How Japan’s Shrinking Population Creates Growing Problems

The fiscal challenges that Japan's shrinking population has created come from a shrinking birth rate and an aging population.

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June 3, 2017
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June 3, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup: From Bad Statistics to Good Movies

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June 2, 2017
weekly economc news roundup and misleading statistics
June 2, 2017
Questions About Popeye and Misleading Statistics

Precise numbers can become misleading statistics when politicians, journalists and scholars use them for jobs projections and GDP totals.

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June 1, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and beer consumption
June 1, 2017
Throwback Thursday: Sending Tanks (and Thanks) to a Canal

As our first Throwback Thursday, we look at the present and the past with the 2,000 barrel beer tanks that traveled on the Erie Canal.

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May 30, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Star Wars economics
May 30, 2017
What Star Wars Can Teach Us About Success

Even as it celebrates its 40th birthday after a quiet 1977 debut, we cannot be sure of the reasons for Star Wars's success.

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May 29, 2017
Weekly economic news roundup and American made Toyota Camry
May 29, 2017
Why Toyota is an American Car

A source of jobs and economic growth, the leading manufacturer of American made cars is not a U.S. firm because of globalization.

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