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August 2, 2024
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August 2, 2024
August 2024 Friday’s e-links: A Real Manufacturing Story

Starting our August e-links, we recommend a podcast that, by focusing on one city, makes the demise of manufacturing come alive.

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October 23, 2019
decline in manufacturing
October 23, 2019
Why the World Economy is Growing More Slowly

In most of the world's advanced economies, there are gains in certain areas and lagging regions elsewhere that create a disparity and less economic growth.

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September 29, 2019
America's two economies
September 29, 2019
Looking at America’s Two Economies

Comparing the locations, incomes, and jobs of Democrats and Republicans, we see America's two economies and a tension between democracy and capitalism.

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March 25, 2019
de minimis exemption
March 25, 2019
What You Might Not Know About Cardboard Boxes

Easy to ignore, the quantity of cardboard boxes that we demand has soared because of the incentives created by Amazon Prime.

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July 7, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and baby names
July 7, 2017
Fracking, Fertility and Families

By comparing manufacturing and fracking communities, economists are trying to figure out why the number of single parents is soaring.

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February 1, 2017
future jobs
February 1, 2017
How a Caterpillar Changed a City

While Peoria used to be the perfect place to test new products like Pampers, now an uneven economic recovery took Taco Bell's new quesadilla to Toledo.

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February 1, 2016
Everyday economics and the tire tariff had a visible benefit and a much greater invisible cost.
February 1, 2016
The Choice Between Free Trade and Tariffs

Low skilled labor bears more of the cost of free trade than comparative advantage and traditional economics have indicated.

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