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Baby Car Seat Abundance
The time price of a baby car seat is down 78.4% since 1981. You can have quadruplets today and still have money left over.
Nov 7
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Gale Pooley
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October 2025
Baby Diaper Abundance
The time price of a Huggies diaper is down 56% since 1981, so diapering twins today costs 8% less than diapering a single baby back in 1981.
Oct 31
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Gale Pooley
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Iceland Podcast
An opportunity to talk to the leading economics podcast in Iceland
Oct 29
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Gale Pooley
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Iceland: More Entrepreneurs or More Bureaucrats?
Innovation has served Iceland for 1,150 years. Why surrender to Brussels now?
Oct 25
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Gale Pooley
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Why Simple Everyday Objects Are Impossible to Make
A great video about knowledge and economic growth and why we’re all billionaires:Gale Winds is a reader-supported publication.
Oct 21
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Gale Pooley
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Buy The Shoe Or Buy The Label On the Shoe?
You should compare "utility" over time, not the popularity of a particular brand name.
Oct 17
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Gale Pooley
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Nike Superabundance
Would you rather have a pair of 1985 Jordans or a pair 2025 LeBrons? Ignore collector value. We’ve had 40 years of innovation making shoes better…
Oct 13
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Gale Pooley
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Wages, Benefits, And Upskilling
Since 2004 average wages and benefits increased by 92.6 percent while CPI increased by 70.8 percent.
Oct 10
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Gale Pooley
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Time Pricing Tuition
Imagine working one week or less to pay a full year of tuition?
Oct 3
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Gale Pooley
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September 2025
Richard Nixon And Me
A decade of price control misery.
Sep 26
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Gale Pooley
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Will AI Innovate the Trillion-Dollar K-12 World?
The cost of producing a proficient high school graduate is $912,281. What if AI could reduce it by 99.9 percent?
Sep 19
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Gale Pooley
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More Big Mac Abundance
Most of us are "upskilling" workers. Investing in human capital provides excellent dividends.
Sep 17
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Gale Pooley
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