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American Economic Association

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Nov 16, 2025
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How does spam make money?

Spam operators profit by sending extremely large volumes of low-cost messages and relying on tiny response rates — studies show response rates as low as 1 in 12.5 million but still enough to produce d...

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How have rising Treasury interest payments affected other discretionary programs in FY2025 budgets?

in FY2025 materially altered the federal budget’s arithmetic by expanding the share of spending devoted to servicing debt and compressing the room for discretionary programs, even as statutory caps an...