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Zero-day Comparisons
Game of Thrones, Season 2 is getting illegally downloaded. A lot. In fact, it’s on track to be the most pirated show of 2012, and maybe 2011 as well: Maybe that’s interesting to you, maybe not. Here’s...
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Activity: Rent vs. Mortgage Cost
Some people say that we couldn’t have known there was a real estate bubble. But quite a few economists pointed out well before the crash that the “price/rent” ratio — that is, the average cost of...
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Activity: Total Film Gross
The final Harry Potter film made $1,328,111,219 in 2011. The final Lord of the Rings film made $1,119,929,521 in 2003. Use WolframAlpha to adjust these figures for inflation. Which film had the higher...
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Example: Where’d the Productivity Go?
The hourly compensation of a typical worker grew in tandem with productivity from 1948–1973. That can be seen in Figure A, which presents both the cumulative growth in productivity per hour worked of...
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Activity: 24 Houses Per Homeless Person
Via Truth & Justice’s Facebook Page. Find a figure (or a couple of figures) on homelessness in America. Find a figure on the number of houses in America. What percentage of houses would have to be...
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Activity Following “Stocks, Inflows, and Outflows”
1. Consider the following issue: 17.1. A major controversy has occurred about apparent contradictions in biostatistical data as researchers try to convince Congress to allocate more funds for...
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