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The Department of Education collects financial statistics from universities that includes expenses such as salaries and benefits in their Integrated…
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Salonga park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a 36,000 square kilometer reserve in the Congo river basin, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and…
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Total foreign contributions—as donations or general payments—to American universities in 2019 almost topped $4 billion. That may only be a sliver of the…
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Major pharmaceutical chains, specifically CVS/Caremark, Walgreen’s and Rite Aid, account for over a third of all distributions of opioids according to…
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The book Moneyball, published in 2003 by Michael Lewis and the movie of the same name, detailed how baseball had become purely a game of dollars. With…
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The Biden administration recently published a plan to deal with the growing cost of beef driven by a monopoly in the beef processing industry. Currently…
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Asset-backed securities, specifically mortgage-backed securities, were at the center of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. These were the investments…
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Fewer frozen pellets are falling from the sky
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In October, China banned the use of cryptocurrencies along with bitcoin mining because of its association with money laundering and excessive energy…
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'Correlation does not imply causation' is an old adage of science and formal logic. It's a gentle reminder that sometimes, when two distinct events…
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Peer-to-Peer (p2p) lenders such as Social Finance (SoFi), Prosper, and LendingClub have been around for over a decade by now. They offer a new way to…
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On a year-to-year basis, inflation was 5.4 percent in July of 2021, the largest increase since 2008, and there are expectations that the consumer price…
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