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August 13, 2023
the dual mandate
August 13, 2023
The Women’s Multiplier Effect

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April 11, 2022
Weekly Economic News Roundup and paying for the social welfare state
April 11, 2022
A Global Look at Spending and Taxes

Comparing national spending and taxes in the United States to other similar countries, we see big differences.

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March 27, 2020
sustainable debt
March 27, 2020
What Would John Maynard Keynes Have Said About Stimulus Spending?

To the Great Depression and the Great Recession, we can now add coronavirus stimulus spending as examples of John Maynard Keynes's philosophy.

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January 17, 2020
Weekly Economic News Roundup and global risk 2020
January 17, 2020
Everything We Need to Know About Global Economic Risk

Concerned with a shift away from traditional multilateral institutions and free trade, the World Economic Forum identifies our global economic risk.

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December 8, 2019
stock market predictions
December 8, 2019
Why It’s Tough to Make Stock Market Predictions

The long term increase of the S&P 500 and the Dow Industrials misleadingly entices investors to believe that it's easy to make stock market predictions.

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September 19, 2019
Biden's spending proposals
September 19, 2019
Where the Federal Deficit Can Fool Us

At $1 trillion, the ballooning U.S. deficit can be understood as a number, as a proportion of the budget, and the reason we owe China so much money.

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May 12, 2017
priming the pump
May 12, 2017
How We Primed the Pump

When President Trump refers to priming the pump, we can think of the Great Depression, the Great Recession and deficit spending that can fuel the economy.

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April 25, 2015
The econlife.com Weekly Roundup
April 25, 2015
Weekly Roundup: From Raisins to BBQ

Our everyday economics includes property rights, sovereign debt, default,, externalities, regulation, Pigovian taxes, incentive, state taxes, and oligopoly.

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April 24, 2015
Using the Takings Clause from the Fifth Amendment, the Supreme Court protected private property rights.
April 24, 2015
Is the Raisin Reserve “Unraisonable”?

The Supreme Court is deciding if the USDA can affect raisin grower property rights though a raisin reserve that mandates crop surrender to prop up price.

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January 16, 2014
supply chain
January 16, 2014
Connecting Abigail Adams to Janet Yellen

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