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Looking at the glass ceiling, a recent study indicates that progress has stalled for women ascending the legal and corporate ladder.
While Halloween candy spending displays some agreement between red and blue states, it also relates to a top ten list of economic ideas.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from measuring national wealth to the GDP and gender differences.
Friday's e-links: Today we link to the connection among women, power, and the exclamation point and to some insight about socialism.
In Oklahoma, voters will soon decide if eye care regulation should let retailers like Walmart and Costco give you eye exams and sell you eye glasses.
Typically we look at our national wealth through a fiscal or GDP lens when we might get a better picture by using a balance sheet.
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.