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June 21, 2025
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June 21, 2025
Our Weekly Economic News Roundup: From Fighting Wars to Pricing Congestion

Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from entitlement finance to Nintendo competition.

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June 18, 2025
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Nintendo economics
June 18, 2025
How Nintendo Plays the Economics Game

Nintendo economics can explain why fans lined up for hours to be the first buyers of the newly released Switch 2.

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June 14, 2025
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June 14, 2025
Our Weekly Economic News Roundup: From Designing Money to Funding Roads

Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from can tariffs to egg prices.

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June 13, 2025
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Beer can prices
June 13, 2025
How Tariffs Affect Our Beer

With climbing aluminum tariffs, brewers have to figure out a response to more expensive beer cans that cannot be entirely made in the USA.

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June 12, 2025
Weekly Economic News Roundup and gender pay gap
June 12, 2025
Where Women Are Underpaid and Underrepresented

Comparing the W.N.B.A. to the N.B.A. and Fortune 500 female CEOs to male CEOs, we see that women are underpaid and underrepresented.

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June 9, 2025
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June 9, 2025
What Is the Economic Impact of Dobbs?

Although the Dobbs impact on all women rippled across the United States during the past three years, it particularly hit one group.

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June 7, 2025
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June 7, 2025
Our Weekly Economic News Roundup: From Chocolate to Cereal

Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from African debt to the value of college.

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June 5, 2025
economic news roundup and college graduation
June 5, 2025
Why Did Women Become More Educated?

With college graduation rates up, we can ask why women, more than men, have primarily been the beneficiaries.

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May 31, 2025
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May 31, 2025
Our Weekly Economic News Roundup: From Pets to Pennies

Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from bond vigilantes to fast food prices.

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May 30, 2025
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Southwest airline boarding
May 30, 2025
When Southwest Got a New Identity

Looking back at the past 50 years, we would have seen a Southwest identity that differed massively from today.

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May 24, 2025
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May 24, 2025
Our Weekly Economic News Roundup: From New Homes to New Babies

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May 23, 2025
Weekly Economic News Roundup and EV chargers
May 23, 2025
How EV Chargers Affect EV Sales

For all of us that are concerned with the slow pace of electric vehicle sales, we could blame charging stations.

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