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Nearly complete stegosaurus fossil could fetch $6m at auction
Critics, however, believe private collectors are so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.
Supply & Demand game | Breakeven
Turn your classroom into a digital marketplace. Breakeven is a real-time trading platform, designed for learning economics.
Buried Fortune of Old Copper Wire Is Worth Billions to Telcos
As they upgrade to fiber-optic cable, telecommunications companies could recover as much as 800,000 metric tons of copper over the next decade.
Inside the Black Market Where People Make Thousands of Dollars Selling Their Poop
Michael Harrop started an underground poop-trading empire. But something smells off about his product.
How to Sell Stuff You No Longer Need - Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports shows you how to sell the stuff you no longer need and turn those castoffs into cash.
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.
Delaware License Plates - Freakonomics
Darshak Patel, Phd on Twitter
“I need this! But I’m lazy to make my own so Amazon to the rescue!!”
Blood for money: my journey in the industry buying poor Americans’ plasma
The US is one of the few countries that allows donors – who are often struggling economically – to be paid for plasma
Getting Your Students to be Dynamic: Lesson and Web App about Market Dynamics in the Long-Run
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.
Pool rental app, Swimply, is catching on in Metro Detroit
Swimply services allow residents to offer up their pools to rent and it's starting to take off: 49 listings show up in Metro Detroit area.
Helium is again in short supply
pThe war in Ukraine isn’t much of a factor, yet./p
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.
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.
How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881 million
They failed in the same way as my bad fantasy football team.
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.
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We tried $180 Alaskan red king crab legs to see if they're worth the money—here's what happened
At $66 for 2 pounds, snow crab legs are the most common variety. But the pinnacle of all crab legs are the wild-caught Alaskan red king crab, costs nearly $180 for 2 pounds.
FCC voted unanimously to create clearer ‘nutrition labels’ for internet services
The government has been trying to clear up internet provider language since the Obama administration.
 
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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?
Food trucks to be allowed in downtown, Midtown Detroit, neighborhoods | Crain's Detroit Business
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 […]
WSJ News Exclusive | Uber, Lyft Prices at Records Even as Drivers Return
Data show average fares were at a record in July despite an improvement in the pandemic-driven shortage of drivers.
Some Notre Dame students and faculty outraged by proposed campus Chick-fil-A
Roughly 180 University of Notre Dame students and faculty have signed an open letter calling on the school’s Campus Dining division to nix the proposed new shop.
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
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.