As an example, a lot of the economics blogs that I read tend to have posts that already assume you understand the basic supply and demand curve graphs.

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It used to be that Wall Street was functioning on the basic idea that financial events were subject to something very like a normal distribution, also known as a bell curve.

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The original theory underlying the Rahn Curve assumed that as the size of government increased from zero, supplying law and order and some basic services, economic growth rates would increase until government reached some optimal size.

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