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Dear Alexa, My friends and I went to the movies last weekend, and at the end of the night I realized I paid more for my popcorn, soda and candy, than I did for my actual movie ticket! Why are movie concessions stands so expensive? Please Explain! Kate Well Kate,... [read more]
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1. Among the U.N.’s 8 millennium goals for 2015, sustaining aging populations was not included. Why?

2. You might want to decide with whom you agree: WSJ‘s Daniel Henninger saying that “Capitalism Saved the Miners” or The Huffington Post with “Capitalism Would Have Killed the Chilean Miners“.

3. Perhaps like people, some dogs are pessimists and others are optimists according to a recent study described in Current Biology. You can see the economic connection here.