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Steel manufacturing was at one point the most important industry in the United States. It was one of

When you buy a bottle of rum in the United States, by law nearly all the federal taxes on that rum m

The wind power business is a bit contradictory right now. It's showing signs of boom and bust seemin

When you sit down to watch the Oscars, what you are really watching is the final battle in a months-

Dynamic pricing is an increasingly common phenomenon: You can see it when

It is so expensive to have a kid in the United States. The U.S. is one of just a handful of countrie

Fundraising is a staple of the school experience in the U.S. There's an assembly showing off all the

Réka Juhász is a professor of economics at the University of British Columbia, and she studies what'

The Department of Defense's proposed budget for 2024 is $842 billion. That is about 3.5% of the U.S.

The Genco Picardy is not an American ship. It doesn't pay U.S. taxes, none of its crew are

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Keith King was upset when his marriage ended. His wife had cheated, and his family broke apart. And

There are tons of markets that don't exist because people just don't want to allow a market

It's Groundhog Day, and the eyes of the nation have turned to a small town in western Pennsylvania.

The Chicken Tax (Classic)

2024/1/31

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At around 1 a.m. on the morning of November 15, 1994, Captain Prentice "Skip" Strong III woke to a d

On today's episode, we have three big economic ideas for your consideration – ideas that could poten

After very high inflation, the United States is finally feeling some relief in the form of "disinfla

On today's show, we look at