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Ranging from from border infrastructure to a divorce bill, a Brexit To Do List can be given a Readiness Score that shows their negotiating progress.
Relevant today, the timeless ideas in Alexander Hamilton's development plan are about sovereign debt, banking, and economic growth.
Seeing that LeBron James has a four-year $154 million deal, we can ask what makes superstar salaries for athletes so high.
McDonald's current delivery problem with soggy French fries is somewhat similar to what it had to solve more than forty years ago.
Whether looking at the nineteenth century or now, Wall Street has always had fast traders who knew how to get the news before their competitors.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from Saudi Starbucks and trading bananas to female film critics.
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.