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Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from a McDonald's drive-thru to a fat bear.
Our September 2021 e-links continue with a look at presidential libraries that is about much more than books and papers.
We can look at a snapshot of different sources of state tax revenue for 2019 and 2021 to see yet another way that Covid-19 affected us.
For drive-thru speed, McDonald's believes that just 20 seconds can make a huge difference in taking customers away from competitors.
Seeing Otis, Holly, and 747 compete during Alaska's Fat Bear Week reminds us of the impact of wilderness and development tradeoffs.
A demography challenge, China's birth rate problem is worse in other nations where the growth in babies and the elderly should be reversed.
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.