Hello y’all! Here are some of my favorite stories last week that contained some interesting economic concepts:
Worries about inflation have led to consumers experiencing “tipping fatigue” [CNBC]
There are millions of acres of public land that isn’t even accessible to the public because it’s surrounded by private land [The New York Times]
Is higher education approaching an “enrollment cliff”? [Vox]
Holiday spending is way up according to the Holiday Gift Price Index [Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis]
PNC tracks the cost of the 12 Days of Christmas with their Christmas Price Index (CPI) [PNC]
Yesterday I wrote about Qatar’s $200+ billion budget for hosting the 2022 World Cup:
Week 47 is over and I have checked in 50 books for the year. I’ll likely wrap up a few more books this week and hit my mark of reading 52 books with a few weeks to spare. I recently finished The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave. I was racing through the first 70% of the book because the storyline was so fascinating. Here’s a blurb from Amazon:
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.
The end of the book, however, was disappointing to me. I was really hoping for a more engaging ending. It’s got a great rating on Amazon and Goodreads, so some people clearly love it. It was a nice fiction break as I struggle to finish a host of non-fiction books I’ve started recently.