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September 11, 2025
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September 11, 2025
Where We Sleep the Most

Wondering how our sleep time affects us, we can compare when we go to bed and wake-up in different U.S. states.

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June 9, 2025
impact of Trump tariffs
June 9, 2025
What Is the Economic Impact of Dobbs?

Although the Dobbs impact on all women rippled across the United States during the past three years, it particularly hit one group.

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June 1, 2020
significance of a skyscraper
June 1, 2020
Comparing Welfare in 13 Countries

Although the per capita GDP gap between two countries could appear large, the difference shrinks when you bring welfare into your calculations.

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February 6, 2020
economic news roundup and language policy
February 6, 2020
A Little-Known Downside of Economic Growth

Per capita economic growth has a little-known connection to the world's hundreds of endangered languages that could become extinct.

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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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May 7, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and capitalism
May 7, 2019
Six Facts: The Impact of Capitalism

With the political debate gravitating toward socialism and capitalism, today we take a look at six facts that tell us about capitalism in four countries.

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June 11, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and measuring happiness
June 11, 2018
Winning the World Cup

In many ways, a country can become good at football (soccer) and nurture a World Cup winner but it also could get snagged by the "middle income trap."

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April 25, 2017
China's GDP
April 25, 2017
How Affluence Relates to Pollution

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