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Animal Sanctuaries + Rescues: My Love Hate Relationship

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Animal Sanctuaries + Rescues: My Love Hate Relationship

Latest blog post is up! 

How do such strong feelings as love and hate both play into how we see sanctuaries and rescues? How can you help rescues and sanctuaries? And why do we need them to begin with? (Like, really to begin with.)

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Why is Zimt so expensive? (Hint: It isn't.)

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Why is Zimt so expensive? (Hint: It isn't.)

As expressed in a previous blog post, the purpose of Zimt is not to make chocolate.  There are a number of topics that I’d like to delve into and, this one provides a great overview for the premise of these. It’s a topic that, unless you’re an economist (or just someone who can’t stop won’t stop analyzing),  you likely don’t think about too much- at least not in a broad sense.  Externalities are costs or benefits (spillover effects) to a third party, who is not directly involved in the primary market transaction, resulting from either the production and/or consumption of...

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