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Baby booms and busts: how population growth spurts affect the economy

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imageDoes a boom in babies give the economy a boost or cause a bust?Baby money via www.shutterstock.com

A baby boom is generally considered to be a sustained increase and then decrease in the birth rate. The United States, the UK and other industrialized economies have experienced only one such baby boom since 1900 – the one that occurred after...

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ISIS Propaganda and Gangsta Rap Videos

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imageJames Franco as Alien, gangsta and gangsta rapper, from Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers (2012)miguelvaca/flickr, CC BY-SA

There is a muscular, tattooed man holding a machine gun. He is in front of an expensive sports car, with gold chains around his neck and what looks like a Rolex on his wrist. The man is standing proudly in front of the camera.

On...

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