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- Gig Economy Workers Buy Like They Work http://fortune.com/2015/11/24/gig-economy-consumers/ 8 comments
- Don’t blame Nehru’s Socialism for Air India fate. Read the 1944 Bombay Plan first: The Bombay Plan that argued for a mixed-economy was drafted by the likes of J.R.D. Tata, G.D. Birla, Purushottam Das Thakurdas and Ardeshir Shroff https://theprint.in/opinion/dont-blame-nehrus-socialism-for-air-india-fate-read-the-1944-bombay-plan-first/756469/ 2 comments india
- Elina Ribakova 🇺🇦 on Twitter: Russia's Economy likely to Shrink by 15% this year https://twitter.com/elinaribakova/status/1505650178895888390 12 comments economics
- U.S. economy likely created nearly a million jobs in April https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-economy-likely-created-nearly-million-jobs-april-2021-05-07/ 7 comments economy
- Military coup likely to damage Myanmar's economy https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55897836 6 comments nottheonion
- You can’t turn the economy back on like a light switch https://www.vox.com/2020/5/21/21263934/economy-reopening-stock-market-v-shape-recovery-jerome-powell 6 comments politics
- Bernie Sanders blasts Mitt Romney criticism: "Multi-millionaires like you and Trump have rigged our economy" https://www.newsweek.com/sanders-blasts-romney-criticism-rigged-economy-1452010 51 comments politics
- Buffett on the economy: 'It looks like things have slowed down' https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/28/buffett-on-the-economy-it-looks-like-things-have-slowed-down.html 14 comments business
- India likely to be $6 trillion economy in 10 years: Morgan Stanley http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/indicators/india-likely-to-be-6-trillion-economy-in-10-years-morgan-stanley/articleshow/60858026.cms 10 comments india
- Gig Economy Workers Buy Like They Work: No Commitment http://fortune.com/2015/11/24/gig-economy-consumers/ 5 comments economy
- Russia's Central Bank said Monday that it was likely the economy would contract in the first quarter of next year and perhaps by around 4.5 percent in 2015 http://www.themoscowtimes.com/mobile/business/513344.html 12 comments worldnews
- Peter Schiff on Credit Card Cancer: When not used properly credit can be like a cancer that sickens an otherwise healthy economy. http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff7.html 4 comments economy
- The Zimbabwe economy is disintegrating...it's like watching a tragedy in slow motion http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/world/africa/07zimbabwe.html?ex=1328504400&en=5709ec03b6b62b0d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss 48 comments reddit.com
- With Jobs Numbers Like These, It's Hard To See Why The Economy Is Slowing https://www.npr.org/2019/08/02/747370063/with-jobs-numbers-like-these-its-hard-to-see-why-the-economy-is-slowing 14 comments economy
- Robert Reich: Trump's good economy is only good for the likes of Donald Trump | Opinion https://www.newsweek.com/robert-reich-trump-economics-personal-economy-one-percent-1430184 24 comments politics
- Billionaire Ray Dalio says tax changes like those proposed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will have 'huge' impact on economy https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/ray-dalio-says-us-tax-changes-will-have-huge-impact-on-markets.html 36 comments politics
- India likely to overtake US to be world’s second largest economy by 2030: Report https://indianexpress.com/article/business/economy/india-could-likely-be-the-second-biggest-economy-in-2030-china-usa-standard-chartered-5535573/ 32 comments india
- Warren Buffett: This doesn't feel like a 3% GDP economy https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/30/warren-buffett-this-doesnt-feel-like-a-3-percent-gdp-economy.html 146 comments politics
- It looks like the US economy just ground to a halt http://www.businessinsider.com/us-gdp-preview-q1-2017-2017-4 18 comments politics
- Saudi Arabia Diversifies Its Economy By Investing In Startups Like Al Qaeda And ISIS https://toptopic.com/posts/saudi-arabia-diversifies-its-economy-by-investing-in-startups-li-11029 3 comments nottheonion
- The 3 stooges are running the US economy now, so buckle up. With Gary Cohn out at the White House, President Donald Trump can run the economy like the slapstick show he's always wanted. https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/three-stooges-running-us-economy-183444655.html 5 comments politics
- EU's largest economy, Germany is likely to slip into recession https://www.indianarrative.com/economy-news/eu-s-largest-economy-germany-is-likely-to-slip-into-recession-183553.html 20 comments economy
- Lawyers making money behind the scenes of fields like crypto, cannabis, and the influencer economy https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/top-lawyers-law-firms-crypto-cannabis-tiktok-emerging-industries-2021-6 4 comments cryptocurrency
- The Immigration Effect: There's a Way for President Trump to Boost the Economy by Four Percent, But He Probably Won't Like It http://projects.propublica.org/graphics/gdp 3 comments politics
- What would the economy look like today if Congress had followed Obama's lead, responded to public-opinion polls, and passed the American Jobs Act? http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/01/12007563-the-road-not-taken?lite 139 comments politics
- How likely are the 'big four' European economies to vote to leave the EU if Brexit works out? https://www.euronews.com/2020/08/10/nearly-half-of-italians-would-support-leaving-the-eu-if-brexit-is-successful-according-to 106 comments europe
- 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
- Mitt Romney’s war on context - The key to winning swing voters: Never, ever let them think about what the economy was like before Jan. 20, 2009 http://www.salon.com/2012/04/25/mitt_romney%E2%80%99s_war_on_context/singleton/ 3 comments politics
- Eric Mandelblatt - Investing in the Industrial Economy - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 266] https://open.spotify.com/episode/0K7ZqfZ9W7dd7smehkwJrs?si=kcWJo_0qRJiSPDNfh4suZQ&t=1728 2 comments securityanalysis
- indian economy: India likely to be 3rd largest economy by 2028: HSBC report http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/indicators/india-likely-to-be-3rd-largest-economy-by-2028-hsbc-report/articleshow/60718420.cms 4 comments india
- US economy expanding? The doomsayers (like me?) have been proved wrong. The consensus is now that it is very likely that the US economy would see inflation drop back to pre-pandemic levels without having to go into a slump – in other words, a ‘soft landing’. https://www.cadtm.org/US-economy-expanding 41 comments economy
- While the US government is entertaining mind boggling deficits, a crises plagued economy and printing money like a tin-pot dictatorship. It is more than happy to fund others colonisation enterprises. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/u-s-taxpayers-are-paying-for-israel-s-west-bank-occupation-1.324941 11 comments worldnews
- Larry Summers calling for higher interest rates is the peak of mediocrity acting like a prophet. He helped crash the economy in 2008-2009 through years of deregulation and free market based reforms that horribly missed the mark and we still paying the price. https://prospect.org/economy/falling-upward-larry-summers/ 3 comments economics
- UK economy likely to suffer worst Covid-19 damage, says OECD - Forecast slump in GDP of 11.5% will exceed falls by France, Italy, Spain and Germany https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/10/uk-economy-likely-to-suffer-worst-covid-19-damage-says-oecd 52 comments europe
- 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
- After a robust third quarter, US economic growth will likely slow. That bodes well for rate cuts next year. The economy is expected to keep growing through the end of the year, though at a slower rate. Some investors say an end-of-year stock rally may be on the table, too. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/22/economy/stocks-week-ahead-q3-gdp/index.html 2 comments economy
- RIP Renowned Futurist Hazel Henderson (1933-2022) - who kick-started conversation on topics like the green economy and the transition to a renewable energy economy, in the 1960's/70's. https://hazelhenderson.com/ 7 comments futurology
- 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
- 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
- Jim Hightower - The 1 Percent's Cry for Justice: These ultra-wealthy, goes the Forbes narrative, are the "deserving rich," for they are our economy's makers and producers — as opposed to being takers and moochers, like those commoners who get Social Security, Medicare and other government help. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/10-2 3 comments politics