Have you ever grouped data in Excel only to find your months sorted alphabetically instead of chronologically? It’s a frustrating quirk of the GROUPBY function, one that can turn a clean dataset into ...

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The US government is expected to shut down if Congress cannot reach a deal by Sept. 30. Sevens Report Research founder Tom Essaye said it's not the shutdown itself that poses a threat to markets, but ...

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers won't receive a paycheck for the foreseeable future after the government officially shut down Oct. 1. The partial shutdown began at midnight after President ...

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Free-traders wield two familiar arguments against protectionism. First, they point to higher prices—tariffs make protected items more expensive. Second, they invoke Frederic Bastiat’s principle of the ...