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Misleadingly simple, almond tariffs' impacts become complicated when we see the ripple of responses and retaliations that they initiate.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from money to American made and Netflix.
Continuing our January e-links, this week, for what we need to know about AI, we recommend the CES keynote speech from Nvidia's CEO.
Shown by Tesla, sometimes you do not need to sell more cars and trucks to elevate your bottom line with more revenue.
The recent death of Richard Easterlin takes us back to his benchmark 1974 study of money and happiness and the avalanche of responses.
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.