Tuesday's assorted links

The Great Migration, variable movie prices, bread shortages, budget travel, and monopsony power

Hello, y’all! Here are five stories that I learned about over the past week that I thought you may also find interesting:

1. The economic impact for Black Americans during the Great Migration and those who came afterward.

2. Some major theaters introduce variable pricing for tickets to see The Batman.

3. The Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens to make bread a luxury in the Middle East.

4. The world has become more affordable to explore, but there is a human, environmental and ethical cost to our lifestyle choices.

5. A Treasury Department report finds that particular employer practices are responsible for limiting workers’ choices and wages.

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Over the past few days, I’ve been in Switzerland with a group of students studying abroad for a week. Read more about it here:

Hello from Switzerland 🇨🇭

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We’ve completed 9 weeks so far, but the book total stands at 7 books for the year. I haven’t gotten to read much leading up to our departure, but I was able to read some on the flight over to Zurich. I started a new historical fiction book called Salt to the Sea. It has an alternating narrator, which I love and it’s a slightly different topic than most historical fiction I’ve read.