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Supply & Demand game | Breakeven
Supply & Demand game | Breakeven
Turn your classroom into a digital marketplace. Breakeven is a real-time trading platform, designed for learning economics.
·breakeven.app·
Supply & Demand game | Breakeven
One Ship in Panama Canal Paid $2.4 Million to Skip the Line
One Ship in Panama Canal Paid $2.4 Million to Skip the Line
Shippers are paying up to $2.4 million per vessel if they want to beat a logjam of carriers waiting to sail through the drought-affected Panama Canal, according to one company active in the market.
·bloomberg.com·
One Ship in Panama Canal Paid $2.4 Million to Skip the Line
Darshak Patel, Phd on Twitter
Darshak Patel, Phd on Twitter
“I need this! But I’m lazy to make my own so Amazon to the rescue!!”
·twitter.com·
Darshak Patel, Phd on Twitter
Pollinate: The Academic Advocacy Service That Has Cornell Abuzz
Pollinate: The Academic Advocacy Service That Has Cornell Abuzz
Pollinate is a service that allows students to buy seats in classes they want but can't enroll in. The site also promises to help students convince professors to let them into classes they couldn't get into.
·cornellsun.com·
Pollinate: The Academic Advocacy Service That Has Cornell Abuzz
Helium is again in short supply
Helium is again in short supply
pThe war in Ukraine isn’t much of a factor, yet./p
·physicstoday.scitation.org·
Helium is again in short supply
No poop for you: Manure supplies run short as fertilizer prices soar
No poop for you: Manure supplies run short as fertilizer prices soar
For nearly two decades, Abe Sandquist has used every marketing tool he can think of to sell the back end of a cow. Poop, after all, needs to go somewhere. The Midwestern entrepreneur has worked hard to woo farmers on its benefits for their crops.
·reuters.com·
No poop for you: Manure supplies run short as fertilizer prices soar
Rents reach 'insane' levels across US with no end in sight
Rents reach 'insane' levels across US with no end in sight
Krystal Guerra’s Miami apartment has a tiny kitchen, cracked tiles, warped cabinets, no dishwasher and hardly any storage space. But Guerra was fine with the apartment’s shortcomings. It was all part of being a 32-year-old graduate student in South Florida, she reasoned, and she was happy to live there for a few more years as she finished her marketing degree.
·apnews.com·
Rents reach 'insane' levels across US with no end in sight
Why cage-free eggs becoming norm: It's what people want
Why cage-free eggs becoming norm: It's what people want
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Without much fuss and even less public attention, the nation’s egg producers are in the midst of a multibillion-dollar shift to cage-free eggs that is dramatically changing the lives of millions of hens in response to new laws and demands from restaurant chains.
·apnews.com·
Why cage-free eggs becoming norm: It's what people want
One million strong
One million strong
Over the last four years, we have been building tools that make it easier than at any time in history for writers to connect with readers directly and make meaningful money.
·on.substack.com·
One million strong
 
 
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Will Real Estate Ever Be Normal Again?
Will Real Estate Ever Be Normal Again?
In Austin and cities around the country, prices are skyrocketing, forcing regular people to act like speculators. When will it end?
·nytimes.com·
Will Real Estate Ever Be Normal Again?
Is There a Difference Between Carbon Offsets and Carbon Credits? - Carbonfund.org
Is There a Difference Between Carbon Offsets and Carbon Credits? - Carbonfund.org
To be fair, this is not a question we commonly receive from donors or those interested in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but when people do ask about the different between carbon offsets and carbon credits, and sometimes carbon dioxide equivalents, it shows an intense interest in the subject and usually a strong commitment to fighting […]
·carbonfund.org·
Is There a Difference Between Carbon Offsets and Carbon Credits? - Carbonfund.org
Lumber Wipes Out 2021 Gain With Demand Ebbing After Record Boom
Lumber Wipes Out 2021 Gain With Demand Ebbing After Record Boom
(Bloomberg) -- Lumber, which at one point was among the world’s best-performing commodities as the pandemic sent construction demand soaring and stoked fears of inflation, has officially wiped out all of its staggering gains for the year.Prices at Monday’s close are now down 0.6% for the year as demand eases and supply expands in response to earlier gains. The rally turned a common building product into a social media sensation and a flash point in the debate over U.S. monetary policy. At one po
·finance.yahoo.com·
Lumber Wipes Out 2021 Gain With Demand Ebbing After Record Boom
Coffee Prices Soar After Bad Harvests and Insatiable Demand
Coffee Prices Soar After Bad Harvests and Insatiable Demand
The rises threaten to drive up costs at the breakfast table as the world’s biggest coffee producer, Brazil, faces one of its worst droughts in almost a century.
·wsj.com·
Coffee Prices Soar After Bad Harvests and Insatiable Demand
Michigan RV industry continues long, strange trip
Michigan RV industry continues long, strange trip
Jerry Bridges looks at his books and sees black, but nothing else about the numbers over the past year-and-a-half are normal.There's never been so many people looking for an RV or fifth wheel at Lloyd Bridges Traveland in Chelsea. Even so, sales volume is down 40 percent from last year."I can't get…
·crainsdetroit.com·
Michigan RV industry continues long, strange trip