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Cardiff and Aimee answer your questions about the economy, the first season of the podcast and our company, Bazaar Audio. 

Recommended links:

Question 1: Are more people interested in markets than there used to be?

• “Robin Hood” Reports 43% Revenue Decline” (WSJ) 

• “The rising influence of retail investors” (BIS) 

• Schwab: “The Rise of the Investor Generation” 

• GS data on retail investors sticking with it (in May) 

• “Retail Traders Bet Against Stocks, Signaling Deeper Downturn” (BBG in June) 

• SEC chief launches review of ‘uneven’ US equities market

• “Individual-Investor Boom Reshapes U.S. Stock Market” (WSJ in August 2020) 

• “Retail Investor Trade and the Pricing of Earnings” (Wharton paper by Jeremy Michels in July 2021)

• Retail investor explainer in Insider, January 2022

Question 2: Why focus on GDP growth?

• Peter Blair Henry on episode 1 of the show 

• Diane Coyle’s book

• Brad DeLong’s review of Ben Friedman’s book 

Question 3: Dinosaurs

• Ugliest dinosaurs 

• Facts about Ankylosaurus

Question 6: PPP and severance

• GAO report on PPP 

• “Where, Exactly, Did $800 Billion in PPP Money Go?” (Bloomberg) 

Question 7: Abortion care and insurance premiums

• Companies scramble to adapt health benefits after Roe overturned (Axios)

• Employers Providing Abortion Benefits Should Address Compliance Questions (SHRM)

• Whether to reimburse workers for abortion-related travel is a brewing controversy (Peter Coy)

Question 8: Economics of access to abortions

• The controversial economics of abortion law (WSJ) 

• The US Supreme Court’s blind spots on abortion (Free Lunch) 

• The Most Important Study in the Abortion Debate (The Atlantic) 

• What can economic research tell us about the effect of abortion access on women’s lives? (Brookings) 

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