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    Why We Want To Win the Lottery
    Elaine Schwartz
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    Elaine Schwartz
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    Valentine's Day history
    How Valentine’s Became a Chocolate and Card Day
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 month ago
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    Amazon Echo Dot
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    Elaine Schwartz
    September 6, 2022
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    economics of Crocs
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    Elaine Schwartz
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    Why Dinner Guests Say Thank You With Wine, Not Cash
    Elaine Schwartz
    7 days ago
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    Elaine Schwartz
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    A Feel Good Story From Gander
    Elaine Schwartz
    December 26, 2022
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    What We Can Learn From Spain’s Ice Shortage
    Elaine Schwartz
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    Elaine Schwartz
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    msrijuana markets
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    Elaine Schwartz
    December 28, 2022
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    economic news roundup and contracts
    A Closer Look at the World’s Top and Bottom Laissez-Faire Countries
    Elaine Schwartz
    July 13, 2022
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    owning the moon
    How to Own the Moon
    Elaine Schwartz
    August 22, 2021
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    The Surprising Ways that Governments Get Money
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 month ago
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    Weekly Economic News Roundup and federal spending cuts
    Why Federal Spending Cuts Come After Raising the Debt Ceiling
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 months ago
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and federal spending cuts
    A Global Look at Spending and Taxes
    Elaine Schwartz
    April 11, 2022
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    banking collapse facts
    The Smaller But Enticing Bank Failure Facts You Want To Know
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 weeks ago
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    6 Facts: All We Need to Know About Bank Runs
    Elaine Schwartz
    3 weeks ago
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    How SWIFT Makes Money Move
    Elaine Schwartz
    March 2, 2022
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    Rana Plaza collapse
    How Fast Fashion Responded to the Rana Plaza Collapse
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 month ago
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    economic news roundup and deglobalization
    How We Disagree About Deglobalization
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 months ago
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    Why North Korea Should Produce Giant Statues
    Elaine Schwartz
    October 4, 2022
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  • Economic Thinkers
    • Gary Becker
    • Milton Friedman
    • Friedrich Hayek
    • Daniel Kahneman
    • John Maynard Keynes
    • Thomas Malthus
    • Alfred Marshall
    • Karl Marx
    • John Stuart Mill
    • David Ricardo
    • Joseph Schumpeter
    • Adam Smith
    • Thorstein Veblen
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    What We Expect From Online Dating
    Elaine Schwartz
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    Why We Have a Chores Gap
    Elaine Schwartz
    May 23, 2021
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    COVID’s Divorce Rate Surprises
    Elaine Schwartz
    February 5, 2021
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    An Innovation That Stuck
    Elaine Schwartz
    May 16, 2021
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    Elaine Schwartz
    June 2, 2019
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    Weejly economic and pay-what-you-want and conscious capitalism
    When Pay-What-You-Want Does Not Quite Work Out
    Elaine Schwartz
    January 20, 2019
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    weekly economic news roundup and socialism
    What We Mean by Socialism
    Elaine Schwartz
    May 31, 2019
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    Everyday economics and the cost of roundabouts
    The Reason We Should Drive Around in Circles
    Elaine Schwartz
    August 3, 2015
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    lottery winners and losers
    What Lottery Winners and Losers Need to Know
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 6, 2022
    0
    stock market losses
    How We Should (Not) Respond to Stock Market Losses
    Elaine Schwartz
    October 9, 2022
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    Amazon's air fleet
    Why Amazon Is Buying a Freighter Fleet
    Elaine Schwartz
    January 22, 2021
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    weekly economic news roundup and prisoner's dilemma and game theory
    What Would John Maynard Keynes Have Said About Stimulus Spending?
    Elaine Schwartz
    March 27, 2020
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    Everything We Need to Know About Global Economic Risk
    Elaine Schwartz
    January 17, 2020
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    stock market predictions
    Why It’s Tough to Make Stock Market Predictions
    Elaine Schwartz
    December 8, 2019
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    Economic news roundup and strawberry contest
    What We Can Learn From a Strawberry Contest
    Elaine Schwartz
    February 3, 2021
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    Weekly Economic News Roundup and fish hatcheries trout
    What We Can Learn From a Trout
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 17, 2019
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    Weekly Economic News Roundup and zero waste design
    Why We Want Sneakers Made From Coffee
    Elaine Schwartz
    July 17, 2019
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    farm festival prices
    All We Need To Know About Pumpkin Slingshots and Fall Farm Festivals
    Elaine Schwartz
    October 17, 2022
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    discount airline fees
    How a Cheap Airline Can Be Expensive
    Elaine Schwartz
    February 15, 2022
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    Weekly Economic News Roundup and Measuring Mount Everest
    Where Mount Everest Economics Take Us
    Elaine Schwartz
    December 11, 2020
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    supply chain
    Connecting Abigail Adams to Janet Yellen
    Elaine Schwartz
    January 16, 2014
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and dividing taxes
    How Boats and Cake Are Like Taxes
    Elaine Schwartz
    February 5, 2019
    0
    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
    0
    JS Mill's support of redistribution from taxation in the AFA
    John Stuart Mill on Affordable Health Care
    Elaine Schwartz
    July 17, 2014
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    Weekly Economic News Roundup and North Korean monuments
    Why North Korea Should Produce Giant Statues
    Elaine Schwartz
    October 4, 2022
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    globalization
    The Future of Globalization
    Elaine Schwartz
    March 27, 2022
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    U.S. China Trump trade deal
    A China Trade Deal Update
    Elaine Schwartz
    February 17, 2021
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    Weekly Economic News Roundup and recorded music formats vinyl
    Vinyl Records, Creative Destruction, and the GDP
    Elaine Schwartz
    October 26, 2022
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    Weekly Economic News Roundup and recorded music formats vinyl
    Some New Spin For Vinyl Records
    Elaine Schwartz
    October 22, 2021
    1
    Norway's EV adoption
    The Electric Vehicle Switch
    Elaine Schwartz
    July 25, 2021
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and cornhole corruption
    The Cornhole BagGate Scandal
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 3, 2022
    0
    economic news roundup and Adam Smith's Laissez-faire
    What a Traffic Light Can Surprisingly Signal
    Elaine Schwartz
    July 6, 2022
    0
    economic news roundup and Adam Smith's Laissez-faire
    When We Don’t Need Traffic Lights
    Elaine Schwartz
    June 30, 2021
    2
    economic news roundup and inconspicuous consumption
    Where Inconspicuous Consumption Is Rather Obvious
    Elaine Schwartz
    July 28, 2022
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    weekly economic news roundup and lawn history
    What Lawn History Says About Status
    Elaine Schwartz
    June 30, 2022
    2
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    Six Facts: The Economic Side of the French Bulldog
    Elaine Schwartz
    January 7, 2022
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  • Economic History
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    Weekly Economic News Roundup and beer consumption
    The Ups and Downs of Global Beer Consumption
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 5, 2020
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    COVID-19 consumer spending
    How a Street Corner Reveals the Real Recovery
    Elaine Schwartz
    September 27, 2020
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    understanding the GDP
    Understanding a Pandemic GDP
    Elaine Schwartz
    August 2, 2020
    0
    China's debt exposure
    Where China Is Building New Financial Architecture
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 days ago
    0
    China's beer consumption
    When China Started Drinking More Beer
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 month ago
    0
    life expectancy
    Why We Want Age Inflation (or Maybe Deflation)
    Elaine Schwartz
    September 27, 2022
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    The Smaller But Enticing Bank Failure Facts You Want To Know
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 weeks ago
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    Elaine Schwartz
    December 23, 2022
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    Argentina's World Cup Win
    Why Argentina Will Get a (World Cup) GDP Boost
    Elaine Schwartz
    December 20, 2022
    0
    nail history
    What We Can Learn From a Nail
    Elaine Schwartz
    March 20, 2022
    0
    General Electric hstory
    Edison, Tesla, and the History of General Electric
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 14, 2021
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and U.S. manufacturing
    6 Updated Facts: What Happened to Manufacturing?
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 17, 2020
    2
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    The Best Way to Board a Plane
    Elaine Schwartz
    4 weeks ago
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    The Many Sides of the Ford Pickup Truck
    Elaine Schwartz
    January 25, 2023
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    Elaine Schwartz
    January 23, 2023
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    How A Brand Is Powerful
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 week ago
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    Elaine Schwartz
    3 weeks ago
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    How We Can Fight Inflation Through a Hot Dog War
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 29, 2022
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    China's debt exposure
    Where China Is Building New Financial Architecture
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 days ago
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    An Update: China’s One, Two, Three Child Policy
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 month ago
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    Where Has the Middle Class Gone?
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 month ago
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    milk consumption
    Why Are We Drinking Less Milk?
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 month ago
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    Why It’s Not Easy to Use Less of the Colorado River
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 months ago
    0
    What We Need to Know About Our Food’s Carbon Footprint
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 months ago
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    economic news roundup and pizza acrobatics
    How To Think Outside the (Pizza) Box
    Elaine Schwartz
    4 weeks ago
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    How Beef Croquettes Are Like National Parks
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 17, 2022
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    The Future of the Mall
    Elaine Schwartz
    October 31, 2022
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    March Madness gender inequity
    Gender Inequity at March Madness
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 weeks ago
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    women leaders
    How the Gender Gap Has Barely Budged
    Elaine Schwartz
    4 weeks ago
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    biased tariffs
    How Underwear Tariffs Are Biased
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    1 month ago
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    Elaine Schwartz
    January 6, 2023
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    Why We Want a Purple Tomato
    Elaine Schwartz
    September 21, 2022
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    What Argentina Wants From Brazil
    Elaine Schwartz
    January 24, 2023
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    What We Can Learn (About Money) From a LEGO
    Elaine Schwartz
    December 15, 2022
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    What We Can Learn From a Big Mac
    Elaine Schwartz
    August 26, 2022
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    Weekly News Roundup and presidential jets Air Force One
    Why Presidential Jets Have Sky High Costs
    Elaine Schwartz
    April 7, 2022
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    presidents' inherited economies
    The Economy Inherited by Bush, Obama, and Trump
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 8, 2020
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    measuring presidential economic performance
    The Mystery of a President’s Economic Performance
    Elaine Schwartz
    February 17, 2020
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    owning the moon
    How to Own the Moon
    Elaine Schwartz
    August 22, 2021
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    The Connection Between Traffic Jams and Jobs
    Elaine Schwartz
    August 27, 2019
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    Why Free Tuition Is Like An Onion
    Elaine Schwartz
    June 30, 2019
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  • Home
  • About
    • ELAINE
    • ECON 101 1/2: THE FOUNDATION
    • CONTACT
  • Economic Ideas
    • Behavioral Economics
    • Business
    • Demand and Supply
    • Scarcity
    • The Market System
    • Taxes and Spending
    • Money and Banking
    • Trade & Comparative Advantage
    Our Weekly Economic News Roundup and wine gifts
    Why Dinner Guests Say Thank You With Wine, Not Cash
    Elaine Schwartz
    7 days ago
    0
    Academy Award diversity
    Why We Want More (Academy Award Winning) Actors
    Elaine Schwartz
    3 weeks ago
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and winning the lottery
    Why We Want To Win the Lottery
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 month ago
    0
    Why the Swiss Matterhorn Matters
    Elaine Schwartz
    3 weeks ago
    0
    Valentine's Day history
    How Valentine’s Became a Chocolate and Card Day
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 month ago
    0
    Amazon Echo Dot
    When (Unintentionally) Alexa Boosts Music Revenue
    Elaine Schwartz
    September 6, 2022
    0
    economics of Crocs
    What Economists Say About Crocs
    Elaine Schwartz
    3 days ago
    0
    Our Weekly Economic News Roundup and wine gifts
    Why Dinner Guests Say Thank You With Wine, Not Cash
    Elaine Schwartz
    7 days ago
    0
    What We Are Drinking
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 month ago
    0
    A Feel Good Story From Gander
    Elaine Schwartz
    December 26, 2022
    0
    https://econlife.com/2022/08/ice-shortage/ice cube history
    What We Can Learn From Spain’s Ice Shortage
    Elaine Schwartz
    August 5, 2022
    1
    mini-posts
    Everyday Economics and a Tablet, a Commencement, and a Stadium
    Elaine Schwartz
    May 1, 2022
    0
    msrijuana markets
    The Problem With Marijuana Markets
    Elaine Schwartz
    December 28, 2022
    0
    economic news roundup and contracts
    A Closer Look at the World’s Top and Bottom Laissez-Faire Countries
    Elaine Schwartz
    July 13, 2022
    1
    owning the moon
    How to Own the Moon
    Elaine Schwartz
    August 22, 2021
    0
    The Surprising Ways that Governments Get Money
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 month ago
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and federal spending cuts
    Why Federal Spending Cuts Come After Raising the Debt Ceiling
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 months ago
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and federal spending cuts
    A Global Look at Spending and Taxes
    Elaine Schwartz
    April 11, 2022
    0
    banking collapse facts
    The Smaller But Enticing Bank Failure Facts You Want To Know
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 weeks ago
    0
    Silicon Valley Bank
    6 Facts: All We Need to Know About Bank Runs
    Elaine Schwartz
    3 weeks ago
    0
    economic news roundup and changing job markets
    How SWIFT Makes Money Move
    Elaine Schwartz
    March 2, 2022
    0
    Rana Plaza collapse
    How Fast Fashion Responded to the Rana Plaza Collapse
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 month ago
    0
    economic news roundup and deglobalization
    How We Disagree About Deglobalization
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 months ago
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and North Korean monuments
    Why North Korea Should Produce Giant Statues
    Elaine Schwartz
    October 4, 2022
    0
  • Economic Thinkers
    • Gary Becker
    • Milton Friedman
    • Friedrich Hayek
    • Daniel Kahneman
    • John Maynard Keynes
    • Thomas Malthus
    • Alfred Marshall
    • Karl Marx
    • John Stuart Mill
    • David Ricardo
    • Joseph Schumpeter
    • Adam Smith
    • Thorstein Veblen
    online dating markets
    What We Expect From Online Dating
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 months ago
    0
    chores gap
    Why We Have a Chores Gap
    Elaine Schwartz
    May 23, 2021
    0
    keeping a maiden name
    COVID’s Divorce Rate Surprises
    Elaine Schwartz
    February 5, 2021
    1
    Post-it Note
    An Innovation That Stuck
    Elaine Schwartz
    May 16, 2021
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and avocado consunption
    An Avocado Update
    Elaine Schwartz
    June 2, 2019
    0
    Weejly economic and pay-what-you-want and conscious capitalism
    When Pay-What-You-Want Does Not Quite Work Out
    Elaine Schwartz
    January 20, 2019
    0
    weekly economic news roundup and socialism
    What We Mean by Socialism
    Elaine Schwartz
    May 31, 2019
    0
    Everyday economics and the cost of roundabouts
    The Reason We Should Drive Around in Circles
    Elaine Schwartz
    August 3, 2015
    2
    lottery winners and losers
    What Lottery Winners and Losers Need to Know
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 6, 2022
    0
    stock market losses
    How We Should (Not) Respond to Stock Market Losses
    Elaine Schwartz
    October 9, 2022
    0
    Amazon's air fleet
    Why Amazon Is Buying a Freighter Fleet
    Elaine Schwartz
    January 22, 2021
    0
    weekly economic news roundup and prisoner's dilemma and game theory
    What Would John Maynard Keynes Have Said About Stimulus Spending?
    Elaine Schwartz
    March 27, 2020
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and global risk 2020
    Everything We Need to Know About Global Economic Risk
    Elaine Schwartz
    January 17, 2020
    0
    stock market predictions
    Why It’s Tough to Make Stock Market Predictions
    Elaine Schwartz
    December 8, 2019
    0
    Economic news roundup and strawberry contest
    What We Can Learn From a Strawberry Contest
    Elaine Schwartz
    February 3, 2021
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and fish hatcheries trout
    What We Can Learn From a Trout
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 17, 2019
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and zero waste design
    Why We Want Sneakers Made From Coffee
    Elaine Schwartz
    July 17, 2019
    0
    farm festival prices
    All We Need To Know About Pumpkin Slingshots and Fall Farm Festivals
    Elaine Schwartz
    October 17, 2022
    0
    discount airline fees
    How a Cheap Airline Can Be Expensive
    Elaine Schwartz
    February 15, 2022
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and Measuring Mount Everest
    Where Mount Everest Economics Take Us
    Elaine Schwartz
    December 11, 2020
    0
    supply chain
    Connecting Abigail Adams to Janet Yellen
    Elaine Schwartz
    January 16, 2014
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and dividing taxes
    How Boats and Cake Are Like Taxes
    Elaine Schwartz
    February 5, 2019
    0
    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
    0
    JS Mill's support of redistribution from taxation in the AFA
    John Stuart Mill on Affordable Health Care
    Elaine Schwartz
    July 17, 2014
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and North Korean monuments
    Why North Korea Should Produce Giant Statues
    Elaine Schwartz
    October 4, 2022
    0
    globalization
    The Future of Globalization
    Elaine Schwartz
    March 27, 2022
    0
    U.S. China Trump trade deal
    A China Trade Deal Update
    Elaine Schwartz
    February 17, 2021
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and recorded music formats vinyl
    Vinyl Records, Creative Destruction, and the GDP
    Elaine Schwartz
    October 26, 2022
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and recorded music formats vinyl
    Some New Spin For Vinyl Records
    Elaine Schwartz
    October 22, 2021
    1
    Norway's EV adoption
    The Electric Vehicle Switch
    Elaine Schwartz
    July 25, 2021
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and cornhole corruption
    The Cornhole BagGate Scandal
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 3, 2022
    0
    economic news roundup and Adam Smith's Laissez-faire
    What a Traffic Light Can Surprisingly Signal
    Elaine Schwartz
    July 6, 2022
    0
    economic news roundup and Adam Smith's Laissez-faire
    When We Don’t Need Traffic Lights
    Elaine Schwartz
    June 30, 2021
    2
    economic news roundup and inconspicuous consumption
    Where Inconspicuous Consumption Is Rather Obvious
    Elaine Schwartz
    July 28, 2022
    0
    weekly economic news roundup and lawn history
    What Lawn History Says About Status
    Elaine Schwartz
    June 30, 2022
    2
    economic news roundup and economic news roundup and French bulldog appeal
    Six Facts: The Economic Side of the French Bulldog
    Elaine Schwartz
    January 7, 2022
    0
  • Economic History
    • Business Cycles
    • Development
    • Finance
    • Industry
    • Transportation
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and beer consumption
    The Ups and Downs of Global Beer Consumption
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 5, 2020
    0
    COVID-19 consumer spending
    How a Street Corner Reveals the Real Recovery
    Elaine Schwartz
    September 27, 2020
    0
    understanding the GDP
    Understanding a Pandemic GDP
    Elaine Schwartz
    August 2, 2020
    0
    China's debt exposure
    Where China Is Building New Financial Architecture
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 days ago
    0
    China's beer consumption
    When China Started Drinking More Beer
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 month ago
    0
    life expectancy
    Why We Want Age Inflation (or Maybe Deflation)
    Elaine Schwartz
    September 27, 2022
    0
    banking collapse facts
    The Smaller But Enticing Bank Failure Facts You Want To Know
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 weeks ago
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and black swans and gray rhinos
    Black Swans and Gray Rhinos
    Elaine Schwartz
    December 23, 2022
    0
    Argentina's World Cup Win
    Why Argentina Will Get a (World Cup) GDP Boost
    Elaine Schwartz
    December 20, 2022
    0
    nail history
    What We Can Learn From a Nail
    Elaine Schwartz
    March 20, 2022
    0
    General Electric hstory
    Edison, Tesla, and the History of General Electric
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 14, 2021
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and U.S. manufacturing
    6 Updated Facts: What Happened to Manufacturing?
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 17, 2020
    2
    economic news roundup and boarding strategies
    The Best Way to Board a Plane
    Elaine Schwartz
    4 weeks ago
    0
    Ford F-150 pickup truck
    The Many Sides of the Ford Pickup Truck
    Elaine Schwartz
    January 25, 2023
    1
    best and worst airlines
    The Difference Between the Best and Worst Airlines
    Elaine Schwartz
    January 23, 2023
    0
  • What’s Trending
    • Competition
    • Developing Economies
    • Environment
    • Food and Entertainment
    • Gender Issues
    • Innovation
    • International Trade
    • Presidential Economics
    • Presidential Election
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and most valuable global brands
    How A Brand Is Powerful
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 week ago
    0
    Why the Swiss Matterhorn Matters
    Elaine Schwartz
    3 weeks ago
    0
    hot dog wars
    How We Can Fight Inflation Through a Hot Dog War
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 29, 2022
    0
    China's debt exposure
    Where China Is Building New Financial Architecture
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 days ago
    0
    economic news roundup and China's birth rate
    An Update: China’s One, Two, Three Child Policy
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 month ago
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and shrinking middle class
    Where Has the Middle Class Gone?
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 month ago
    0
    milk consumption
    Why Are We Drinking Less Milk?
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 month ago
    0
    Why It’s Not Easy to Use Less of the Colorado River
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 months ago
    0
    What We Need to Know About Our Food’s Carbon Footprint
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 months ago
    0
    economic news roundup and pizza acrobatics
    How To Think Outside the (Pizza) Box
    Elaine Schwartz
    4 weeks ago
    0
    Weekly Economic News Roundup and beef croquette allocation
    How Beef Croquettes Are Like National Parks
    Elaine Schwartz
    November 17, 2022
    0
    shopping malls
    The Future of the Mall
    Elaine Schwartz
    October 31, 2022
    0
    March Madness gender inequity
    Gender Inequity at March Madness
    Elaine Schwartz
    2 weeks ago
    0
    women leaders
    How the Gender Gap Has Barely Budged
    Elaine Schwartz
    4 weeks ago
    0
    biased tariffs
    How Underwear Tariffs Are Biased
    Elaine Schwartz
    1 month ago
    4
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