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December 20, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and space economy SpaceX
December 20, 2019
What Outer Space Adds to the GDP

When we hear about a red Tesla with a Starman inside orbiting the sun, we can think of a growing space economy that is adding to the GDP.

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September 8, 2019
stock market predictions
September 8, 2019
Why We Should Care About Economic Uncertainty

It is likely that the economic uncertainty created by changes in trade regulations will affect business investment, consumer spending, and the GDP.

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September 4, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and what we eat
September 4, 2019
What We Eat and What We Waste

Finding out what we eat, what we waste, and what we spend on our food can depend on the decade we look at and when we were born.

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September 2, 2019
Economic news roundup and Catastrophe Bonds
September 2, 2019
How to Calculate the Cost of a Disaster

To determine the disaster cost of weather and climate events, the U.S. government has to decide what to include and how to assess the value.

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March 3, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Gross National Happiness
March 3, 2019
The Best Way To Measure Happiness

When we compare Bhutan's gross national happiness (GNH) to its gross domestic product (GDP, we could decide if happiness relates to economic growth.

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September 13, 2018
Economic news roundup and Catastrophe Bonds
September 13, 2018
Six Facts About Disaster Economics

When natural disasters like hurricanes, massive snowstorms, and wildfires strike a region, their economic impact is far more than the clean-up.

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August 28, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and school funding
August 28, 2018
The Best Reasons For Later School Start Times

In addition to teens' mental health, we can support later school start times with cost benefit analysis that focuses on the economy.

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December 10, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and government shutdown
December 10, 2017
The Economic Yardstick That (We Don’t Know) We Need

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March 21, 2015
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March 21, 2015
Weekly Roundup: From Shopping More to Driving Less

Our everyday economics includes tradeoffs, debt ceiling, fiscal policy, GDP, productivity, entitlements, regulation, autonomous vehicles, and innovation.

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March 17, 2015
Economic News Roundup and snow shoveling markets
March 17, 2015
The Reason This Winter Was Not So Bad

NOAA's high impact snowstorm ranks relate to economic growth through municipal snow removal costs, closed businesses, and the supply chains that halted.

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March 16, 2015
Everyday economics and sovereign debt
March 16, 2015
The Problem With Hitting the Debt Ceiling Again

With the U.S. hitting a debt ceiling that is equal to the GDP, concern over U.S. spending is growing as the Congress again decides how to avoid a default.

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