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- Why Americans' 'YOLO' spending spree baffles economists https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20231130-why-americans-yolo-spending-attitude-baffles-economists 6 comments
- Why Americans' 'YOLO' spending spree baffles economists https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20231130-why-americans-yolo-spending-attitude-baffles-economists 730 comments wallstreetbets
- Analysis : Top economists want Congress to spend more on coronavirus recovery https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-finance-202/2020/06/17/the-finance-202-top-economists-want-congress-to-spend-more-on-coronavirus-recovery/5ee9322388e0fa32f823bfaf/?utm_campaign=wp_the_finance_202&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_finance202 4 comments politics
- Daily chart: How countries spend their money | The Economist http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/09/daily-chart-9 11 comments business
- Economists: Now is Wrong Time for Congress to Cut Spending. http://www.truth-out.org/economists-now-wrong-time-congress-cut-spending/1312039103 43 comments politics
- Delay cuts in public spending, says World Bank economist https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/delay-cuts-in-public-spending-says-world-bank-economist-2mbw5dwgg 42 comments economics
- Economists Sour on US Outlook After Spending Stumbles https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-30/economists-sour-on-us-outlook-after-consumer-spending-stumbles?srnd=premium 4 comments economics
- Chinese Economist Suggests China Spend More to Boost Its Birthrate—and Is Blocked From Social Media https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-economist-suggests-china-spend-more-to-boost-its-birthrateand-is-blocked-from-social-media-11642085406 235 comments economics
- Economists bolster Salvini in dispute over Rome’s spending https://www.ft.com/content/28666e56-8154-11e9-9935-ad75bb96c849 22 comments europe
- Chart of the day: Health care spending by age and country -- The Incidental Economist http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/chart-of-the-day-health-care-spending-by-age-and-country/ 4 comments politics
- Economists prefer spending cuts to tax increases, 56% to 7%, with 37% wanting both http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/22/taxes-cuts-economists_n_932697.html 4 comments politics
- Military spending: Hands off the warfare state! | The Economist http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/10/military_spending?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Fbl%2Fwarfarestate 95 comments politics
- Top Economist on Stimulus Reality: Spending Creates VASTLY More Jobs Than Tax Cuts (with chart!) http://www.openleft.com/showdiary.do?diaryid=11354 15 comments politics
- Holiday spending, says an economist, is ‘an orgy of value destruction’ http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/11/29/better_to_give_nothing/ 8 comments business
- The Finance 202: Democratic economists call for big spending, total rethink of deficits as GOP seeks austerity https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/02/finance-202-democratic-economists-call-big-spending-total-rethink-deficits-gop-seeks-austerity/ 21 comments politics
- A top economist says the $4 trillion federal deficit isn't the problem — it's how we're spending the money https://www.businessinsider.com/4-trillion-federal-deficit-isnt-problem-its-how-were-spending-2020-7 43 comments economy
- Economists at Swiss bank UBS increases likelihood of 2019 US Recession from 34% in December to 73% now amid trade war and consumer spending slowdown http://www.cityam.com/274430/us-recession-risk-spikes-amid-trade-war-and-consumer 753 comments worldnews
- Why Germany’s current-account surplus is bad for the world economy - The country saves too much and spends too little | The Economist https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21724810-country-saves-too-much-and-spends-too-little-why-germanys-current-account-surplus-bad 247 comments europe
- The top 10% of U.S. households are $28 trillion richer since 2020-and economists are slowly waking up to the spending revolution https://fortune.com/2023/10/30/consumer-spending-revolution-surprises-economists-american-wealth-richer-28-trillion/amp/ 65 comments economy
- Monthly child tax credit payments are one of the best forms of government spending, economist says https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/15/child-tax-credit-payments-one-of-the-best-forms-of-government-spending-economist.html 42 comments politics
- Patriotic goal: Chinese spending on foreign football players has a political aim, too | The Economist http://www.economist.com/news/china/21693572-big-spending-foreign-football-players-has-political-aim-too-patriotic-goal?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/patrioticgoal 6 comments soccer
- In hindsight, many economists say, the United States should have recognized that borrowing from abroad for consumption and deficit spending at home was not a formula for economic success. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/world/asia/26addiction.html?hp 107 comments politics
- Economists say Bill Cosby may be right about African-Americans spending a lot on expensive sneakers—but he's wrong about why. http://www.slate.com/id/2181822/pagenum/all/ 23 comments reddit.com
- Americans, especially wealthy ones, are still spending big. Continued consumer spending — on travel, concerts, restaurants and more — is propelling economic growth beyond what many had expected. That continued strength has perplexed many economists. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/10/24/consumer-spending-wealthy-economy-gdp/ 55 comments economy
- Question for economists: Visa just reported a 45% increase in consumer spending since pre-pandemic times despite higher interest rates and inflation. Does this signal that a recession is unlikely, or is it a warning that inflation might get worse and the Fed might become even hawkier? https://investor.visa.com/financial-information/quarterly-earnings/default.aspx 44 comments economics
- Biden Team, Pushing Quick Stimulus Deal, Prepares for Renewed Recession | Economists warn that lawmakers must pass aid now, as a renewed coronavirus surge chills consumer spending and business activity. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/business/economy/biden-coronavirus-stimulus-recession.html 4 comments politics
- Economy hurting after Congress fails to act on stimulus - "When you have $60 billion less going to families," former U.S. Treasury economist Ernie Tedeschi told POLITICO, "that means that there's going to be something close to that less in spending." https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/24/economy-hurting-congress-stimulus-400829 23 comments politics
- Brexit: Customs union deal discussed by May and Corbyn will make people £800 worse off, economists warn - GDP would shrink by 3 per cent and chancellor will have £13bn less a year to spend on public services, first analysis finds https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-deal-economy-uk-theresa-may-jeremy-corbyn-customs-union-a8905221.html 7 comments worldnews
- Why Does Air Travel Suck So Bad? This 19th Century Economist Explained It With Just 4 Words (In 1849!) | "To scare the rich." I.e. economy travel needs to be bad enough to make it worth spending much more for first class https://unvis.it/inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/why-does-air-travel-suck-so-bad-this-19th-century-economist-explained-it-with-ju.html 14 comments economy
- Business-Cycle Economists are strongly in favor of a more even income distribution, closer to what we had several decades ago. We need people to spend, not save. This means strengthening the middle class because they are the real job creators, not the wealthy. http://www.forbes.com/sites/johntharvey/2016/02/22/evaluating-the-evaluators/3/#14f958b4204b 422 comments politics
- Knowledge Isn't Power: "...over the past several years policy makers across the Western world have pretty much ignored the professional consensus on government spending and everything else, placing their faith instead in doctrines most economists firmly reject." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/opinion/paul-krugman-knowledge-isnt-power.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&wt.nav=c-column-top-span-region 114 comments politics
- "Without the sequester’s blind, across-the-board spending cuts and other fiscal austerity in 2013, the economy could have added more than 400,000 jobs per month, rather than the 195,000 per month actually experienced, according to estimates by economists at Deutsche Bank." http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/news/2013/12/06/80627/despite-job-growth-americans-continue-to-struggle-to-reach-the-middle-class/ 123 comments politics
- "The top 1% have seen their incomes soar... An aristocracy that gambled its money away on “wine, women and song” has been replaced by a business-school-educated elite whose members marry one another and spend their money on Mandarin lessons and Economist subscriptions for their children." http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21571417-how-prevent-virtuous-meritocracy-entrenching-itself-top-repairing-rungs 26 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
- Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), a leading advocate of shrinking entitlement spending and the architect of the plan to privatize Medicare, spent Wednesday evening sipping $350 wine with two like-minded conservative economists http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/rep-paul-ryans-pricey-pinot-noir.php?ref=fpa 2 comments reddit.com
- Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), a leading advocate of shrinking entitlement spending and the architect of the plan to privatize Medicare, spent Wednesday evening sipping $350 wine with two like-minded conservative economists at the swanky Capitol Hill eatery Bistro Bis. http://www.americablog.com/2011/07/paul-ryans-350-bottle-of-wine-while-he.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+americablog+%28americablog%29&utm_content=google+reader 3 comments politics
- The idea that government spending "kills jobs" is a GOP myth that places the economy in peril. - Alan Blinder, Former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman/Princeton Economist http://online.wsj.com/article/sb10001424052702303635604576392023187860688.html 9 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
- Gov. Scott Walker's plans to balance the Wisconsin state budget by cutting spending and public workers' take-home pay will slow the state's economic recovery, according to projections by a UW-Madison economist. http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_8c50dc92-52f7-11e0-993d-001cc4c03286.html 5 comments politics
- A bleak report on retail sales Thursday reinforced a nagging worry of economists: Shoppers won't spend enough to help a recovery take hold. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bleak-sales-are-another-apf-1948834182.html?x=0 24 comments economy