Tuesday's Assorted Links
What is news, Walmart prices, Moody's ratings, professors using ChatGPT, and urban growth
Hi y’all! Here are five stories from this week that contain some neat applications of economic principles or are related to teaching:
How Americans decide what ‘news’ means to them and how it fits into their lives in the digital era [Pew Research Center]
The world’s largest retailer announced it will raise prices over the next few weeks, citing tariff uncertainty [Axios]
Moody’s downgrades United States credit rating, citing growth in government debt [CNBC | Monday Morning Perspective]
Professors are using ChatGPT, and some students aren’t happy about it [The New York Times 🔒]
Nearly all of the country’s largest urban centers showed population growth after years of pandemic-induced pressures on their economies [U.S. Census Bureau]
A summer baseball team is going head-to-head with Disney over the right to use the "Pickles" name. Can trademarks protect businesses without stifling competition? Find out how the Portland Pickles are fighting back:
There Can Only Be One Pickle... Or Can There?
If this were a movie, it’d be the classic David vs. Goliath narrative: a small, scrappy team facing off against a massive corporation. The underdog in our story is a collegiate summer baseball team known as the Portland Pickles. The gia…
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