- We Used a Burner Wallet to Create a Micro-Economy for Drunk People at our House Party, and it was Most Excellent. https://medium.com/flex-dapps/we-used-a-burner-wallet-to-create-a-micro-economy-for-drunk-people-at-our-house-party-and-it-was-812b2d9f7a35 12 comments ethereum
- People are angry, but about politics, not the economy http://www.vox.com/2016/5/17/11687326/angry-government-economy 11 comments politics
- Airbnb has a dead people problem: The morbid side of the sharing economy http://fusion.net/story/39414/airbnb-has-a-dead-people-problem-the-morbid-side-of-the-sharing-economy/ 15 comments technology
- The biggest question facing the U.S. economy: Why are people dropping out of the workforce? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/10/the-biggest-question-facing-the-u-s-economy-why-are-people-dropping-out-of-the-workforce/?post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost 4 comments politics
- People suffering for months, PRICED IN DUDE WE OPEN AND ECONOMY BOOMS https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/opinion/coronavirus-recovery.html 15 comments wallstreetbets
- Is rich people's excessive income about to strangle the economy? https://theweek.com/articles/858942/rich-peoples-excessive-income-about-strangle-economy?utm_source=links&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=twitter 116 comments politics
- Fuel economy standards kill people, Trump administration claims https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/08/epas-rationale-for-slicing-fuel-standards-rife-with-logical-fallacies/?amp=1 25 comments politics
- France speaks of ''economy for the people, change of ECB's mandate" http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/03/us-france-euro-idusbrea4207s20140503 18 comments europe
- ... tax cuts ... initiated a bubble economy that would let the very rich skim the cream off the top just before the ceiling crashed in on working people. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0 2 comments reddit.com
- Angry Chinese people are using a US embassy social-media page to dodge censors and vent about its slumping economy https://www.businessinsider.com/china-investors-stock-market-censorship-economy-us-embassy-social-2024-2 11 comments economy
- Michael Farr: The problem with the U.S. economy is there are too many poor people https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/18/michael-farr-the-problem-with-the-us-economy-is-there-are-too-many-poor-people.html 1113 comments nottheonion
- Why some people think Hurricane Harvey is good for the economy (and why they are wrong) http://www.learnliberty.org/blog/why-some-people-think-hurricane-harvey-is-good-for-the-economy-and-why-they-are-wrong/ 4 comments economy
- For-Profit Prison Company Tells Investors: Economy Recovery Will Put More People In Prison http://www.eastbayexpress.com/legalizationnation/archives/2013/07/23/for-profit-prison-company-tells-investors-economy-recovery-will-put-more-people-in-prison 6 comments politics
- The government is about to confirm what many people have felt for some time: The economy barely has a pulse. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/0827/snapshot-economy-lot-bleaker/ 8 comments politics
- Serious People Notice Banks Are Gouging Consumers and Tanking the Economy | Ian Welsh http://www.ianwelsh.net/serious-people-notice-banks-are-gouging-consumers-and-tanking-the-economy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+ianwelsh+%28ian+welsh%29&utm_content=google+reader 3 comments economy
- Bernie Sanders on education: 'Dumb' that money blocks bright students from college. "Now that is absurd. That is unfair to those young people. It is stupid in terms of the future of our economy because we want to be tapping all of the intellectual potential that is out there." http://www.universityherald.com/articles/27419/20151230/bernie-sanders-on-education-dumb-that-money-blocks-bright-students-from-college.htm 227 comments politics
- Spain has been in the wrong time zone since WW2, when it changed to German time in sympathy for Hitler. As a result, Spanish people are less healthy and productive, slowing the economy. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/09/26/spaniards-are-less-productive-constantly-tired-because-spain-is-in-the-wrong-time-zone/ 3 comments worldnews
- Global economy is a giant scam designed to benefit a few people who know the game and position themselves accordingly http://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/bnfha/global_economy_is_a_giant_scam_designed_to/ 3 comments worldnews
- The People’s Ledger: How to Democratize Money and Finance the Economy - Vanderbilt Law Review Vanderbilt Law Review https://wp0.vanderbilt.edu/lawreview/2021/10/the-peoples-ledger-how-to-democratize-money-and-finance-the-economy/ 3 comments cryptocurrency
- Why do people think OPEC $60-70 oil won't effect our economy since its only 1% of GDP output? http://www.macrotrends.net/1335/dollar-gold-and-oil-chart-last-ten-years 8 comments investing
- From Mark Cuban: "An Idea for the Economy that will Freak Out a lot of People but could be Fun to Discuss." http://blogmaverick.com/2011/08/10/an-idea-for-the-economy-that-will-freak-out-a-lot-of-people-but-could-be-fun-to-discuss/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=feed%3A+blogmaverick%2Ftyip+%28blog+maverick%29&utm_content=twitter 15 comments politics
- Bill Gates thinks the super-wealthy should pay more tax – and plenty of rich people agree. Letter: "If elected representatives of the world's leading economies do not take steps to address the dramatic rise of economic inequality, the consequences will continue to be catastrophic for society." https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-thinks-wealthy-pay-more-tax-some-rich-agree-2024-1?amp= 165 comments economy
- ‘Zwigato’ Humanises the ‘Invisible People’ of the Gig Economy | It isn't a movie about ‘hidden’ realities as much as realities so ubiquitous that we pretend they don’t exist. https://thewire.in/film/zwigato-movie-review-gig-economy 6 comments india
- A lot of people are comparing the economic effects of the Coronavirus pandemic to the Great Depression. What are the similarities and differences between the current situation and the world economy immediately following the Great Crash of 1929? https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-22/the-coronavirus-recession-will-rival-the-great-depression 8 comments politics
- Gaza economy 'on verge of collapse', with world's highest unemployment - World Bank report says Israeli blockades, war and poor governance have left 43% of people out of work & the strip facing dangerous financial crisis http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/22/gazas-economy-on-verge-of-collapse-jobless-rate-highest-in-world-israel 374 comments worldnews
- "The most shameful achievement of the House Republican majority has been the elimination of $1.5 trillion in discretionary spending through 2022, which has already held back the economy from substantial growth and done real damage to people and communities that depend on government dollars" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/opinion/sunday/extreme-budget-cuts-of-2014.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0 13 comments politics
- Jim Bunning (R-KY) blocks jobless benefits for millions of Americans (who are on unemployment because they were working full time before the GOP trashed our economy)... his comforting words for the people he's tossing out on the street: "Tough Shit" http://www.kentucky.com/2010/02/27/1158396/bunning-single-handedly-stops.html 14 comments politics
- Peter Schiff to right wing anti-immigration loon: "There aren't a finite amount of jobs, the more people that immigrate, the bigger the economy gets and the more jobs there are. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc3xrcbizds&feature=related 12 comments politics
- The World Bank saidit would not offer new funding to Sri Lanka unless the bankrupt island nation carried out "deep structural reforms" to stabilize its crashing economy. Sri Lanka has suffered an unprecedented downturn with its 22 million people enduring months of food and fuel shortages https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220729-world-bank-refuses-new-funding-for-bankrupt-sri-lanka 6 comments worldnews
- Study: Imprisonment is increasingly concentrated among America’s poor—both Black and white—but its indirect effects are disproportionately felt by Black people, both poor and not. These facts are an indictment of US’ political economy, weak social policy, and enduring structures of racial domination https://academic.oup.com/sf/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sf/soab141/6458920 219 comments science
- People in rural areas are gaining weight much faster than city dwellers, finds a new study looking at 112 million adults around the world. Emerging economies, like Chile and Turkey, saw the biggest gains. The find contradicts the idea that urban lifestyles are fueling the rise of obesity. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/05/09/obesity-is-rising-fastest-in-rural-populations/#.xnjprrzonyu 766 comments science
- More than one million people poured into Germany seeking refugee status and a better life, much effort and resources have been expended on the question of whether the new arrivals could contribute to Europe’s biggest economy. Recent numbers show that they can — but only if allowed. | NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/europe/germany-refugees-doctors.html 104 comments germany
- Bill Gates could be the world's first trillionaire by 2042 - "A new Oxfam report on wealth and inequality, entitled "An economy for the 99%," finds super-rich people like Gates have seen their wealth collectively grow by huge margins over the last decade" http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-could-be-the-worlds-first-trillionaire-by-2042-2017-1?r=us&ir=t 71 comments technology
- Canadian Trade Minister : Across the West, over the past 30 years, we have seen a winner-take-all economy. We’ve seen economic gains very much concentrated at the very top, in the top 1% or even 0.1%. We have seen a broad stagnation of middle-class wages. People's fear are based on something real. http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=1096369 17 comments economy
- Venezuela Spends Millions on Incredibly Dumb Things While Its Economy Collapses: Bolivarian socialism apparently means financing things like lousy race-car drivers while the people lack medicine, food, and toilet paper. http://reason.com/blog/2016/05/16/venezuela-spends-dumb-things-collapse 347 comments worldnews
- Global Warming: 'Every Other Summer Will Be a Heat Wave in Eastern China'. In just two decades, 50% of summers could be 'extreme' events like the one in 2013, that caused the deaths of dozens of people, huge food shortages, and cost the economy billions http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/global-warming-every-other-summer-will-be-heat-wave-eastern-china-1469876 4 comments science
- Rand Paul Couldn't Be More Wrong About Unemployment Insurance Unemployment insurance isn't keeping people from taking work. It's keeping them from giving up looking for it. And giving the economy a little boost too. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/12/rand-paul-couldnt-be-more-wrong-about-unemployment-insurance/282144/ 38 comments politics
- Incomes are declining, providing a smaller base for both spending and borrowing. The top 5% may be experiencing a "wealth effect" as stocks soar but 7 million people cannot levitate the entire $15 trillion U.S. economy much while the incomes of the 137 million other workers are stagnant or down. http://www.oftwominds.com/blogsept12/qe-inflation9-12.html 5 comments worldnews
- BBC News - You're hired: How the apprentice gets ahead in Germany. Germany may have an ultra-modern economy but one of the pillars at the very centre of it is very traditional: the idea that people learn a skill on the job. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/14185334 763 comments worldnews
- Convinced the oil supply is dwindling and the world's economies are heading for a crash, some people are moving onto homesteads, living off their land, conserving fuel and stocking up on guns http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080524/ap_on_re_us/environmental_survivalists;_ylt=an0zzc0uj36dk9rxwfv1gb.s0nue 2 comments worldnews