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    Elaine Schwartz
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    November 6, 2020
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    May 31, 2019
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    October 30, 2016
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    Elaine Schwartz
    August 3, 2015
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    1 month ago
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    Elaine Schwartz
    February 5, 2020
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    What Would John Maynard Keynes Have Said About Stimulus Spending?
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    March 27, 2020
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    Elaine Schwartz
    January 17, 2020
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    Elaine Schwartz
    December 8, 2019
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    November 17, 2019
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    July 17, 2019
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    How Legos Discovered It’s Not Easy to be Green
    Elaine Schwartz
    June 18, 2019
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    Where Mount Everest Economics Take Us
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    1 month ago
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    Elaine Schwartz
    November 22, 2019
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    Six Surprising Facts About Our Prescription Drug Spending
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 6, 2019
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    Connecting Abigail Adams to Janet Yellen
    Elaine Schwartz
    January 16, 2014
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    How Boats and Cake Are Like Taxes
    Elaine Schwartz
    February 5, 2019
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    Everyday Economics and how dynamic scoring is controversial because it spotlights growth instead of spending categories.
    Understanding a New Tax Issue
    Elaine Schwartz
    January 8, 2015
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    JS Mill's support of redistribution from taxation in the AFA
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    Elaine Schwartz
    July 17, 2014
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    "Made in America"
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    Elaine Schwartz
    August 10, 2020
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    October 29, 2020
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    September 15, 2020
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    July 17, 2020
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    June 24, 2020
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    January 23, 2020
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    Elaine Schwartz
    November 28, 2019
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    racing pigeon prices
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    November 16, 2020
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    August 9, 2020
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    March 3, 2020
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    November 5, 2020
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    COVID-19 consumer spending
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    September 27, 2020
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    understanding the GDP
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    Elaine Schwartz
    August 2, 2020
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    Alexander Hamilton
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    Elaine Schwartz
    July 5, 2020
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    Alexander Hamilton
    Celebrating the Economic Independence That Alexander Hamilton Created
    Elaine Schwartz
    July 4, 2019
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    Elaine Schwartz
    June 20, 2019
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    Elaine Schwartz
    4 weeks ago
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    Looking at the Bulls and the Bears
    Elaine Schwartz
    March 15, 2020
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    6 Updated Facts: What Happened to Manufacturing?
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 17, 2020
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    Why the Business Suit Is About More Than Clothing
    Elaine Schwartz
    October 7, 2020
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    Ice Cream Economics
    Elaine Schwartz
    May 19, 2019
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    The Story of a New Apple (Called the SnapDragon)
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 4, 2020
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    Elaine Schwartz
    September 30, 2020
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    Deciding When To Give Cash
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    September 17, 2020
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    Comparing Welfare in 13 Countries
    Elaine Schwartz
    June 1, 2020
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    The Country That Was Called a Serial (Debt) Deadbeat
    Elaine Schwartz
    May 14, 2020
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    Elaine Schwartz
    November 2, 2020
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    Elaine Schwartz
    October 30, 2020
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    Elaine Schwartz
    November 20, 2020
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    Elaine Schwartz
    October 20, 2020
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    October 18, 2020
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    Deciding What We Mean By Globalization
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 months ago
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    The Economy Inherited by Bush, Obama, and Trump
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 8, 2020
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    The Mystery of a President’s Economic Performance
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    February 17, 2020
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    How the Economy Affects Our Vote
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    December 6, 2019
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    Elaine Schwartz
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    The Connection Between Traffic Jams and Jobs
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    June 30, 2019
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People on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange who match buyers with sellers and are involved with the orderly pricing of stocks and bonds. Computers have replaced specialists.

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