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Designed to protect us from food fraud and maintain quality, the FDA's resistance to deregulating French Dressing has finally ended.
The pride of the French, a boulangerie baked baguette has been threatened by rock bottom supermarket baguette prices.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from walking dogs to bacon prices and sin taxes.
Our January 2022 e-links continue with my recommendation for an injection of pleasure through the new Disney animated film, Encanto.
With their U.S. roots in a 1790s Whiskey Rebellion, sin taxes vary when looking at current consumption and their state revenue.
The U.S. BLS will be using real time data from J.D. Power for new cars and trucks in its May CPI (Consumer Price Index) release.
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.