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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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