Nick Fountain
Stories
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How do insurance companies determine the value of homes destroyed by wildfires?
Before people who lost their homes in the Los Angeles wildfires can rebuild, they need money. But how does an insurance company figure what a house is worth when there's nothing left standing?
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2 American Economists Win 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize In Economics
Economists William Nordhaus and Paul Romer will share the prize for reshaping the understanding of the long-term determinants of economic growth, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
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An Economics Lesson From The World's Longest Yard Sale
Two economics reporters drive the length of an event known as The World's Longest Yard Sale — stretching from Alabama to Michigan — in search of economic wisdom. They discover a truth of behavioral economics and a couple French records, too.