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- To help model financial systems, some economists are turning to biology https://www.theatlantic.com/article/549725/?single_page=true 15 comments
- Nobel prize winning economist-turned-government apologist demagogue Paul Krugman admits crypto is here to stay; biased media somehow manages to call the positive statement a "damning warning" against crypto https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/paul-krugman-nobel-prize-bitcoin-b1850539.html 3 comments cryptocurrency
- Trump Turns to Always-Wrong Pseudo-Economist Lawrence Kudlow http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/trump-turns-to-always-wrong-pseudo-economist-lawrence-kudlow.html?mid=nymag_press 4 comments economy
- Donald Trump Turns to Always-Wrong Pseudo-Economist Lawrence Kudlow http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/trump-turns-to-always-wrong-pseudo-economist-lawrence-kudlow.html?mid=twitter-share-di 18 comments economy
- Donald Trump Turns To Always-Wrong Pseudo-Economist Lawrence Kudlow http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/trump-turns-to-always-wrong-pseudo-economist-lawrence-kudlow.html?mid=twitter-share-di 21 comments politics
- The Economist explains: Alexis Tsipras’s U-turn http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/07/economist-explains-8?fsrc=scn/rd_ec/alexis_tsipras_s_u_turn 9 comments worldnews
- Conservative Economists Turning Back to Debt Hysteria https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/conservative-economists-turning-back-to-debt-hysteria.html 14 comments politics
- Could This Turn Into a Financial Crisis? Here’s What 3 Economists Are Monitoring. https://www.barrons.com/articles/tariff-financial-crisis-bonds-stocks-0cf20fe3?st=Y5XFGD 3 comments economics
- Can these economists turn things around for Australia's betrayed generations? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-18/can-these-economists-turn-things-around-for-younger-australians/103480052?sf271803714=1 4 comments economics
- The Economist : Why the battle for Mosul is a turning point http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/10/economist-explains-16?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Fbl%2Fed%2Fwhythebattleformosulisaturningpoint 43 comments geopolitics
- A surge in evictions could turn into financial crisis, economist warns https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/economist-a-surge-in-evictions-could-lead-to-financial-crisis.html 61 comments worldnews
- Prominent economist, Ed Dolan, turns his attention to Basic Income. http://binews.org/2014/08/united-states-prominent-economist-ed-dolan-turns-attention-to-big/ 5 comments politics
- WSJ News Exclusive | Economists Turn More Pessimistic on Inflation https://www.wsj.com/articles/economists-turn-more-pessimistic-on-inflation-ed2fd667?mod=economy_lead_pos2 9 comments business
- Senators Ask White House Economists to Turn Over Tariff Findings https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/us/politics/senators-ask-white-house-economists-to-turn-over-tariff-findings.html 21 comments politics
- The Economist: Russia likely wants to turn Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city, into "gray zone" https://gwaramedia.com/en/the-economist-russia-likely-wants-to-turn-kharkiv-ukraine-s-second-city-into-gray-zone/ 179 comments europe
- Pakistan’s new prime minister turns to the IMF | The Economist https://www.economist.com/asia/2018/10/11/pakistans-new-prime-minister-turns-to-the-imf?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/pakistansnewprimeministerturnstotheimfimrancant 27 comments pakistan
- It was supposed to serve as an example of how to build democracy in the Middle East, but turned into a model for how to wreck a country. (From the Economist) http://economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8877644&top_story=1 2 comments reddit.com
- Nobel prize-winning economist: The relief package turned out better than I thought it would https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/perspectives/economic-relief-bill/index.html 8 comments politics
- France’s rock star economist Thomas Piketty turns down Legion of Honour http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/01/france-thomas-piketty-legion-of-honour 6 comments worldnews
- Jamaican officials needed help. They turned to Kamala Harris’s dad. | An unconventional economist at Stanford, Donald J. Harris pushed strikingly nonideological economic solutions to the nation of his birth. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/08/13/donald-harris-kamala-jamaica/ 24 comments economics
- Russia could turn on Putin as the nation's economic strength wanes and sanctions keep tightening, economists say https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-economy-putin-ukraine-war-moscow-outlook-2024-3 2 comments worldnews
- A Recession Is No Longer the Consensus. Economists are turning optimistic on the US economy. They now think it will skirt a recession, the Federal Reserve is done raising interest rates and inflation will continue to ease. https://www.wsj.com/economy/a-recession-is-no-longer-the-consensus-3ad0c3a3 134 comments economy
- Restaurants prep for long-term labor crunch by turning to robots to man the fryer, shuttle food to tables - Economists say that the labor challenge will be prolonged and robotics can help to ease the crunch, but can’t fully replace humans. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/22/restaurants-looking-for-labor-and-speed-turn-to-robots-.html 19 comments futurology
- An economist has examined the degree to which scientists are willing to explore new directions in research in exchange for funding. As it turns out, the costs of inducing scientists to change the direction of their research are high. In other words, researchers generally like to stay in their lane. https://www.aeaweb.org/research/charts/science-elasticity-research-similarity 11 comments science
- [Marc Ciria (economist) on La Vanguardia] Goldman Sachs' loan is being used to pay the club's [Barça] wages, not the Espai Barça project. [...] Barça might be forced to turn into a S.A.D. (Public limited sports company). https://www.lavanguardia.com/deportes/20201013/484033355616/economista-marc-ciria-el-prestamo-de-goldman-sachs-es-para-pagar-salarios.html 44 comments soccer
- Social Programs Can Sometimes Turn a Profit for Taxpayers - "The study, by two Harvard economists, found that many programs — especially those focused on children and young adults — made money for taxpayers, when all costs and benefits were factored in." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/business/social-programs-profit.html 1304 comments science
- Trump Privatizes America Trump's infrastructure privatization plan is a hat trick that optimistically turns $200 billion into $1.5 trillion, is designed to eliminate the public sector and to bankrupt cities and states, says economist Michael Hudson. http://therealnews.com/t2/story:21121:trump-privatizes-america 21 comments politics
- Markets could suddenly turn and they don't even need a trigger, Nobel-winning economist Shiller says https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/23/markets-could-suddenly-turn-and-they-dont-even-need-a-trigger-nobel-winning-economist-shiller-says.html?recirc=taboolainternal 16 comments politics
- China's coal peak hailed as turning point in climate change battle | coal consumption peaked in 2014, much earlier than expected, and then began falling. The economists argue in a new paper on Monday that this can now be seen as permanent trend https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/25/china-coal-peak-hailed-turning-point-climate-change-battle 12 comments science
- New paper by three IMF economists finds that policies of capital account liberalization and austerity fuel inequality, which in turn hurts growth—"the very thing that the neoliberal agenda is intent on boosting." http://commondreams.org/news/2016/05/27/even-imf-imf-turns-neoliberalism 5 comments economy
- MIT Economist leaves bagels next to a sign asking for money in return. It turns out corporate executives are more likely to steal bagels than regular people http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/06/magazine/what-the-bagel-man-saw.html 28 comments economy
- How America is rigged for the rich: Economist Thomas Piketty's landmark new book "Capital" unpacks this delinking in great statistical detail. It turns out that increasing numbers of Americans in the 1%, .1% and .01% have done little to "earn" their wealth or privilege http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/09/opinion/liu-income-inequality/index.html?hpt=hp_t4 413 comments politics
- 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
- Old Economies Rise as Emerging Markets’ Growth Falters: The balance of economic growth is tipping as economists have begun lowering their forecasts for China and other developing economies, the American economy is bouncing back, Japan has turned a corner, and Europe may be escaping recession. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/business/global/old-economies-rise-as-emerging-markets-growth-falters.html 3 comments worldnews
- As Back-To-School Shopping Begins, Consumers May Turn Frugal: Most economists say this year's sales will be slower than last summer's because consumers have been coping with more expensive gasoline and higher payroll taxes. Still, several states are offering tax-free shopping to encourage purchases. http://www.npr.org/2013/08/01/205809594/as-back-to-school-shopping-begins-consumers-may-turn-frugal 3 comments business
- US Gun Researcher Turns To Crowd-Funding: With government funds scarce, economist aims to support firearm study through private donations. http://www.nature.com/news/us-gun-researcher-turns-to-crowd-funding-1.13069 130 comments politics
- The Economist seems to think that turning to people who are not career politicians to do an executives job does not usually end up well. Does this mean that people should never vote fresh blood into the government? http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/11/cain-campaign-0?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/saveusfromthewhiteknight 3 comments politics
- Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz: Assault on social spending, pro-rich tax cuts turning U.S. into nation "Of the 1 Percent, by the 1 Percent, for the 1 Percent" https://www.democracynow.org/2011/4/7/nobel_economist_joseph_stiglitz_assault_on 7 comments politics
- Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz: Assault on Social Spending, Pro-Rich Tax Cuts Turning U.S. Into Nation "Of the 1 Percent, by the 1 Percent, for the 1 Percent" http://www.democracynow.org/2011/4/7/nobel_economist_joseph_stiglitz_assault_on 22 comments politics
- Nobel Prize winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz: "The rich and powerful turn to the government to help them whenever they can, while needy individuals get little social protection." http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/12/america-corporate-banking-welfare/print 6 comments business