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When you look at Norway's new banknotes and their (hilarious) video describing the journey of a cod from the sea to a wallet, you can see that central bankers have become more interesting.
While it is easy for us to see when the minimum wage goes up, the impact on low wage workers' non-wage compensation is much less evident.
While the movie industry has been disrupted by more of us watching movies and Netflix series at home, it might not be dying.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from Greek bailout problems and train station behavior to the value of the Starbucks brand.
As Greek bailout talks continue, European monetary officials are also concerned that a Greek statistician could receive a life sentence for reporting accurate macroeconomic statistics.
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.