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Weekly Roundup
February 8, 2025
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from tariffs and breakfast to government spending.
February 2025 Friday’s e-links: An Economic Podcast
e-links
February 7, 2025
Why We Pay More For Breakfast
Prices
February 7, 2025
Why Eggs Are Like Tariffs
Food, Households
February 6, 2025
Where Government Spending Goes
Fiscal policy
February 5, 2025
Elaine Schwartz - February 7, 2025
When we look at the breakfast menu, at home and at restaurants, we can see why breakfast prices are rising.
Why the Chick-fil-A Drive-Thru Is Speedier
Elaine Schwartz - February 4, 2025
When We Feel Payment Pain
Elaine Schwartz - February 3, 2025
How Cashlessness Affects Tips
Elaine Schwartz - January 30, 2025
What Your Walking Speed Says About You
Elaine Schwartz - January 29, 2025
Elaine Schwartz - December 5, 2024
Looking back to 2004 and looking ahead, the topic of EU expansion takes us to comparative advantage and growth.
What Your Baby Stroller Says About You
Elaine Schwartz - July 18, 2024
How Alexander Hamilton Gave Us Economic Independence
Elaine Schwartz - July 4, 2024
What a Captcha Costs Us
Elaine Schwartz - April 26, 2024
Why a Cruise Ship is Like a Model-T
Elaine Schwartz - April 23, 2024
Elaine Schwartz - January 31, 2025
A problem that needs to be solved, dwindling federal highway funding requires solutions that have a slew of tradeoffs.
The Three R’s of Trade Policy
Elaine Schwartz - January 21, 2025
Why We Want Fewer Roads
Elaine Schwartz - November 15, 2024
How Nvidia Changed the Dow
Elaine Schwartz - November 12, 2024
What History Says About Tariffs
Elaine Schwartz - November 10, 2024
Elaine Schwartz - February 9, 2025
With both originating in a chicken, we can wonder why egg prices are soaring but chicken wing prices are not.
Why Eggs Are Like Tariffs
Elaine Schwartz - February 6, 2025
Why the Chick-fil-A Drive-Thru Is Speedier
Elaine Schwartz - February 4, 2025
Who Gets Hit By a 25% Tariff?
Elaine Schwartz - February 2, 2025
Banana Worries
Elaine Schwartz - January 26, 2025
econguest - September 25, 2024
While we will never forget the opening ceremony on the Seine, there was lots more to remember from the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Econlife Quiz: Trader Joe’s
econguest - June 10, 2024
Econlife Quiz: Barbie
econguest - November 26, 2023
Elaine Schwartz - February 7, 2025
Continuing with our February e-links, today I recommend a podcast interview in which Harvard economist Dani Rodi conveys surprising ideas.
January 2025 Friday’s e-links: Saturday Night Live
Elaine Schwartz - January 24, 2025
January 2025 Friday’s e-links: The Top Ten Risks For 2025
Elaine Schwartz - January 17, 2025
