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Our three November 2020 e-links range from a Giant Panda cub and his mom to an outdoors and an election podcast.
The pandemic has created the incentive to recycle more (cheesy) pizza boxes because we are recycling less office paper.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the change in our Thanksgiving turkey demand has affected farmers, markets, and restaurants.
A manufacturing update reveals the impact from tariffs and other reasons that our economy is experiencing major changes.
When two Chinese businessmen both want the same birds, racing pigeon prices can go sky high into the stratosphere.
As a somewhat invisible part of COVID-19 science, we've been developing and producing billions of super strong vaccine vials.
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.