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Why can’t small businesses find qualified employees?
Link: http://www.marketplace.org/2016/04/04/business/why-can-t-small-businesses-find-qualified-employees Summary: Small businesses are struggling to find qualified workers to fill vacant positions,...
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How the Minimum Wage Affects Restaurant Hygiene
Link: http://www.npr.org/2017/09/13/550607377/how-the-minimum-wage-affects-restaurant-hygiene Summary: Cities across the U.S. have been making efforts to increase the minimum wage, which would impact...
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Nobel Prize Economist David Card on testing Econ 101 theories in the real world
Link: https://www.marketplace.org/2021/10/12/nobel-prize-economist-david-card-on-testing-econ-101-theories-in-the-real-world/ 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences recipient David Card used a...
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Bubbles, Bikes, and Biases
Link: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/23/1030276615/planet-money-summer-school-5-bubbles-bikes-biases Learn from Planet Money’s Summer School what causes financial bubbles with examples such as the dotcom...
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Risk & Disaster
Economists Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson discuss insurance and risk and how it is related to economics. Original Air Date: August 26, 2020 Length: 27 Minutes 27 Seconds
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Mexican drug cartels are getting into the avocado and lime business
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Of Boats and Boxes
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You Should Probably Get You Plane Tickets Soon
Link: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/25/1094706897/you-should-probably-get-your-plane-tickets-soon The Indicator this week discusses what is happening in the airline industry. After hard hits from...
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Insuring music venues during a pandemic
Link: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/07/1091489931/insuring-music-venues-during-a-pandemic You own a business and a pandemic hits so you are forced to shut down, but what do you do when your source of...
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Tech Giants and Tiny Dogs
Link: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/17/1087425495/tech-giants-and-tiny-dogs Ramon van Meer’s niche business – making ramps for weiner dogs – boomed as he utilized tools from tech giants to help him grow...
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