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While many of us focus on how much we spend our time and money on dogs, pet food maker Mars is targeting our pet spending on cats.
With the original Birkin bag selling for $10 million at auction, resellers and counterfeiters are raising their Birkin bag prices.
When President Trump announces a whopping 50% tariff on imports from Brazil, we can expect unintended consequences for coffee and airplanes.
Seeing that the number of bank robberies have plunged, we can say that it is another example of a changing job market in the U.S.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from leap seconds and hot dogs to the Dow.
Continuing our July e-links, I recommend a film in which the librarians fighting book bans are the unlikely heroines.
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.