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Looking at Cape Town, South Africa and 12 U.S. cities we can see why the basic water tradeoff involves a choice between conservation and affordability.
Much too low, the D+ from the American Society of Civil Engineers for our transportation infrastructure needs reconsideration.
Called an alphabet recovery, the ABC's of the GDP trajectory after a massive decline can be illustrated through the letters of the alphabet and a Swoosh.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this weeks's economic news roundup ranges from more diversity in movies to fewer coins and higher prices.
Our June 2020 e-links include the economic recovery alphabet from Dr. Ed's Blog, a cherry drying helicopter, and the NBER Digest.
Hershey's Breath Saver mints and the U.S. Mint have both contributed to the coin shortages problems that the Federal Reserve is trying to solve.
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.