- Sluggish investment is holding India back - The Economist https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2023/11/13/sluggish-investment-is-holding-india-back 3 comments india
- Kamala Harris Backs Rent Control — a Policy 93% of Economists Said Is Harmful https://fee.org/articles/kamala-harris-backs-rent-control-a-policy-93-of-economists-said-is-harmful/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=2020_feedotorg 324 comments moderatepolitics
- Rahul Gandhi is back. Now with two economists, a migrant aid pack and an ethical hacker https://theprint.in/opinion/rahul-gandhi-is-back-now-with-two-economists-a-migrant-aid-pack-and-an-ethical-hacker/418008/ 17 comments india
- EPA is rolling back protections with methodology no respectable economist would endorse https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/432471-epa-is-rolling-back-protections-with-methodology-no-respectable 3 comments politics
- GOP’s List of Economists Backing Tax Cut Includes Ghosts, Office Assistants, Ex-Felons, and a Sprinkling of Real Economists https://theintercept.com/2017/12/01/gops-list-of-economists-backing-tax-cut-includes-ghosts-office-assistants-ex-felons-and-a-sprinkling-of-real-economists/ 3 comments economy
- GOP’s List of Economists Backing Tax Cut Includes Ghosts, Office Assistants, Ex-Felons, and a Sprinkling of Real Economists https://theintercept.com/2017/12/01/gops-list-of-economists-backing-tax-cut-includes-ghosts-office-assistants-ex-felons-and-a-sprinkling-of-real-economists/ 17 comments politics
- The experts strike back! How economists are being proved right on Brexit https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/aug/10/experts-strike-back-how-economists-proved-right-on-brexit?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gu+today+main+new+h+categories&utm_term=238860&subid=18713770&cmp=emcneweml6619i2 46 comments europe
- Economists Are Out. Goldman Is Back In. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-09/economists-are-out-goldman-is-back-in 13 comments politics
- Spain's Economy - Back on its feet | The Economist http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21660550-growth-has-returned-dangers-still-lurk-back-its-feet 79 comments europe
- Top Economists Are Backing Sen. Bernie Sanders on Establishing a $15 an Hour Minimum Wage http://www.budget.senate.gov/democratic/public/index.cfm/blog?id=d388e874-ab05-412d-b5ff-266659accef5 7 comments economy
- Top Economists Are Backing Sen. Bernie Sanders on Establishing a $15 Minimum Wage. http://www.budget.senate.gov/democratic/public/index.cfm/blog?id=d388e874-ab05-412d-b5ff-266659accef5 211 comments politics
- Top Economists Are Backing Sen. Bernie Sanders on Establishing a $15 an Hour Minimum Wage http://www.budget.senate.gov/democratic/public/index.cfm/2015/7/top-economists-are-backing-sen-bernie-sanders-on-establishing-a-15-an-hour-minimum-wage 5 comments politics
- Greece's Euro Exit Back on the Agenda Next Year, Economists Say http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-20/greece-said-to-make-ecb-debt-deadline-as-banks-reopen 13 comments europe
- One Economist Lays Out How To Get Back To Full Employment http://www.businessinsider.com/one-economist-lays-out-how-to-get-back-to-full-employment-2013-12 6 comments politics
- The return of the mainframe: Back in fashion | The Economist http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15276714 17 comments programming
- Can Xi Jinping win back the markets? (cover image of the current issue of the Economist) https://www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=960,quality=80,format=auto/media-assets/image/20240210_DE_SQ_US.jpg 30 comments china
- Back-to-work bonuses can't replace the $600 boost in unemployment, economists say https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/14/back-to-work-bonuses-cant-replace-the-600-boost-in-unemployment-economists-say.html 67 comments politics
- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro loses control over Latin America’s largest regional bank, US-backed economist takes the helm https://world-news-monitor.com/top-news/2019/03/15/maduro-loses-control-over-latin-americas-largest-regional-bank-us-backed-economist-takes-the-helm/ 9 comments geopolitics
- Economist cited by Trump says tariffs won't bring back lost jobs https://www.axios.com/economist-cited-by-trump-tariffs-wont-work-984a3d6a-aad6-4acc-b311-0df1e4c81e9a.html 40 comments politics
- France on brink of recession in two-speed eurozone. Economists fear there is a real danger of France slipping back in recession. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10520684/france-on-brink-of-recession-in-two-speed-eurozone.html 3 comments europe
- The stimulus-plan compromise backed by top Democrats scraps a fresh wave of $1,200 direct payments that economists want https://www.businessinsider.com/stimulus-checks-direct-payments-lacking-top-democrats-compromise-relief-bill-2020-12 139 comments politics
- Handling of lockdown brings back DeMo memories: Economist Jean Dreze https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/handling-of-lockdown-brings-back-demo-memories-economist-jean-dreze-120033001808_1.html 3 comments india
- Over 1,000 economists warn Trump his trade views echo mistakes of 1930s: President’s ‘economic protectionism’ harkens back to errors that fueled Great Depression, say experts including 14 Nobel winners https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/03/donald-trump-trade-economists-warning-great-depression 44 comments economy
- Star French economist backs campaign call for universal basic income http://finance.yahoo.com/news/star-french-economist-backs-campaign-call-universal-income-131936108.html 3 comments europe
- Syria: Hit him hard - Present the proof, deliver an ultimatum and punish Bashar Assad for his use of chemical weapons. The Economist seems to be backing Obama's plan to intervene in Syria. http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21584329-present-proof-deliver-ultimatum-and-punish-bashar-assad-his-use-chemical 5 comments geopolitics
- If the economy falls back into recession, as many economists are now warning, the bloodletting could be a lot more painful than the last time around. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/business/a-second-recession-could-be-much-worse-than-the-first.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=business 5 comments economy
- Biden's Build Back Better Plan Will 'Ease' Inflation, 15 Nobel Prize Economists Say https://www.newsweek.com/bidens-build-back-better-plan-will-ease-inflation-15-nobel-prize-economists-say-1629921 422 comments politics
- Fear & poverty in Turkey as pandemic hits Erdogan’s base | Turkish economists predicts impoverished Turks could double this year to 20 million & set back two decades of progress in narrowing inequality http://en.protothema.gr/fear-poverty-in-turkey-as-pandemic-hits-erdogans-base/ 44 comments worldnews
- Income inequality, it turns out, really does matter economically. "a phalanx of economists — and not just the usual suspects from the liberal think tanks — have examined the data and agreed that the growing gap between the richest Americans and the middle class is holding back the economy." http://azstarnet.com/news/opinion/column/reducing-income-inequality-not-so-easily-dismissed/article_c4859d99-9aff-5e48-976d-b1ee8000e05c.html 84 comments politics
- May God Save Us From Economists: Over the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding. It can be a useful tool for policymaking, but it’s become the only tool. It’s time for economics to back the hell off. https://newrepublic.com/article/168049/tyranny-economists-government 121 comments politics
- White House economists push back against pressure to blame corporate power for inflation | Administration officials engage in ‘the war of the track changes’ as aides differ on corporate responsibility for high prices https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/02/17/white-house-inflation-corporations/ 15 comments politics
- U.S. President Donald Trump may have promised that North Korea will become “very rich” on the back of American investment if Pyongyang ditches nuclear weapons but economists and academics who have studied the isolated country say it is China not the U.S. that will be the engine https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-economy-analysis/north-korea-seen-looking-to-china-not-u-s-for-help-in-any-economic-transformation-iduskbn1j612g?feedtype=rss&feedname=topnews 162 comments worldnews
- On Sunday, economist Paul Krugman hit back against GOP claims that public sector employment has increased under Obama, and that such jobs consist mainly of wasteful bureaucrats and somehow count less economically than private sector ones. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/02/03/1533621/krugman-corrects-fiorina/?mobile=nc 11 comments politics
- Economists back record $3 trillion borrowing in coronavirus crisis despite conservative GOP concerns https://www.newsweek.com/economists-back-treasury-coronavirus-spending-despite-conservative-concerns-1502615 7 comments politics
- Back series GDP data: Former CEA Arvind Subramanian calls for review by experts to clear doubts | “As an economist, I think there are some puzzles [new back series GDP data], there are some issues that need to be explained,” Mr. Subramanian said. https://www.thehindu.com/business/economy/back-series-gdp-data-former-cea-arvind-subramanian-calls-for-review-by-experts-to-clear-doubts/article25702663.ece 3 comments india
- The Big Idea That Could Bring Disaffected Voters Back to the Polls - Sanders would raise the $118,000 income cap on FICA contributions so it would apply to all income above $250,000. That includes a new 6.2 percent tax on investment incomes—what economists used to call “unearned income,” http://www.thenation.com/article/the-big-idea-that-could-bring-disaffected-voters-back-to-the-polls/ 1055 comments politics
- Economist Yasheng Huang compares China to India, and asks how China's authoritarian rule contributed to its astonishing economic growth — leading to a big question: Is democracy actually holding India back? Huang's answer may surprise you. http://www.ted.com/talks/yasheng_huang/transcript 62 comments india
- IMF study finds inequality is damaging to economic growth: The International Monetary Fund has backed economists who argue that inequality is a drag on growth in a discussion paper that has also dismissed rightwing theories that efforts to redistribute incomes are self-defeating. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/feb/26/imf-inequality-economic-growth 99 comments worldnews
- China’s explicit call to cut the amount of cash banks set aside as reserves and boost lending has advanced expectations for imminent policy easing, but economists say any credit loosening may not be enough to beat back the prospect of a deep economic downtrend https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14598291 7 comments worldnews
- The great demographer and economist Thomas Malthus was 23-years-old the last time a British summer was this rain-soaked, which was back in 1789. The consequences of excessive rainfall in the late 18th century were predictable. Crops would fail, the harvest would be dismal, food prices would rise and some people would starve. It was no coincidence that the French Revolution broke out the same year. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/07/29/do2901.xml 2 comments reddit.com
