Tuesday's Assorted Links

Seasonal workers, carbon pollution inequality, return of the pandas, deflation, and online car sales

Hi y’all! Here are five stories from this week that contained some neat applications of economic principles or are related to teaching:

1. Amazon wants to hire 250,000 workers for the holidays [Chartr]

2. The richest 1% of people emitted as much carbon pollution as the poorest two-thirds of humanity in 2019 [Oxfam]

3. Chinese leader Xi Jinping said China will send new pandas to the US as the two countries attempt to reduce tensions [Associated Press | Previous Monday Economist Coverage]

4. Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said deflation may be on the horizon [CNBC]

5. Amazon will allow auto dealers to sell cars on its site in 2024 [The Verge]

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