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Easy to see as one number, a tariff's impact on a country's trade partners, jobs, and prices can be invisible.
Since eliminating the penny just got added to President Trump's to-do list of new government policies, we should debate the pros and cons.
Similar to the World Cup and other major sports events, next day Super Bowl absentees from work represent a hefty percent of the labor force.
With both originating in a chicken, we can wonder why egg prices are soaring but chicken wing prices are not.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from tariffs and breakfast to government spending.
Hello Everyone-
I’m Elaine.
Having been in the classroom for decades, written three books (and some of a fourth one), I like to think about economics everywhere all the time. Every day, I’ve added a blog to econlife—now it has been almost 14 years and more than 4,000 posts. I am delighted that you are here and hope we can have some economic fun together.