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Cost and standard of living

Bond Market

by Lee A. (Lee Allan) Craig, Julianne Treme, Thomas Joseph Weiss,

From “License to Dine: 007 and the Real Exchange Rate,” a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, which compares the evolution of James Bond’s salary with that…

Home of the Whopper

by Thomas Frank,

Let me tell you about this one stretch of Hillsborough Road in Durham, North Carolina. It’s between two freeways, just a short drive from the noble towers of Duke University,…

Who’ll stop the drain? Reflections on the art of going broke

by Vince Passaro,

Places called Hope, places called hopeless

by Harper’s Staff,

Noises off

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Numbers

by David (David E.) Osborne,

Inflation in hindsight

Life on the card

by Jack Richardson,

Whim fulfillment in the land of plastic credit

New England blues

by Harper’s Staff,

How conspicuous is your consumption?

by Harper’s Staff,

What to get rid of

by Jeff Cox,

God rest ye merry, gentlemen, ladies, and a few others

by John Fischer,

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