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Knowing that the trillions spent on pandemic relief will accelerate the growth of the federal debt, we can ask where we will get money.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from cow face masks to airplane weights.
From elephant trunks to a 1930s dust bowl saga, our first two June e-links take us to the capability of an amazing animal and a superb novel.
In addition to the human-elephant conflict, China's wandering herd of elephants takes us to all that they ate.
Taking a look at our expanding waistlines, the FAA said airlines had to declare how they calculate changing airplane weight.
When a producer is concerned that a price increase will diminish sales and increase consumers' ire, the other alternative is shrinkflation.
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.