The lights go out on Lebanon’s economy as financial collapse accelerates
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You are now leaving FantasyLand: The losses will be taken by somebody
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Does increasing the minimum wage lead to higher prices?
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Britain should not quake before Xi Jinping: China has already peaked and faces economic stagnation
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Poorer, angrier, riskier -- modelling the crunch with Surplus Energy Economics
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Goodhart's Law - How systems are shaped by the metrics you chase
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Full employment
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Inside China’s race to beat poverty
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What economists fear most during this recovery
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Overconsumption and growth economy key drivers of environmental crises
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Blizzard has suspended or closed over 74,000 accounts in the last month, as bots have upended the game's economy
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The economics of nuclear energy
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Will all this fiscal and monetary stimulus lead to excessive inflation? (No.)
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US Labor Department employment report shows unexpected improvement, but recovery could still take years
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David Willetts discusses how baby boomers have become the biggest and richest generation in British history at the expense of younger generations
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How Germany saved its workforce from unemployment while spending less per person than the US
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Farming and selling gold in RuneScape is helping Venezuelans survive their country's economic crisis
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Under cover of capital gains, the hyper-rich have been getting richer than we thought: the earnings of the top 0.1% grew 50% more from 1996 to 2018 than previously measured
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America’s deadly obsession with intellectual property: Privatizing life-saving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad both for the coronavirus and the climate crisis
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People are worried about BlackRock
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America’s only public bank, the Bank of North Dakota, is number one in saving small businesses
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United States seeks to change the rules for mining the Moon
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After the crisis, big business could get even bigger: the pandemic and its response thus far are perfectly designed to concentrate corporate power--but we don’t have to accept that
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What will it take to prevent a new Great Depression in the USA? Around $10,000,000,000,000 (ten trillion dollars)
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The lessons of the Great Depression
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Nearly a third of small, independent farmers are facing bankruptcy by the end of 2020, new survey says
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Merkel and Macron make a stunning coronavirus proposal on EU pandemic fund
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Amazon eliminates pay raises for workers as COVID-19 toll mounts
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Making life cheap: Population control, herd immunity, and other anti-humanist fables
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The president’s job is to manage risk. But Donald Trump is the risk: Donald Trump was a gamble. It’s not paying off.
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Non-glamorous gains: The Pennsylvania land tax experiment
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The coronavirus crisis has highlighted exploitative global trade regimes
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What happens in a recession and is it inevitable?
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US GDP doesn’t credit social distancing, but it should
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Pandemic bills are so big that only money-printing can pay them
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Solar’s future is insanely cheap
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How much is a human life actually worth?
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Famine is a choice. One billion people are now food-insecure. But starvation is not an inevitability
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How scientists could stop the next pandemic before it starts
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The class politics of the dollar system
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Why we're seeing mass layoffs in the US but not the UK
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Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom
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US restaurant closings spur farmers to destroy food
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Coronavirus is dealing a gut punch to the illegal drug trade, paralyzing economies, closing borders, and severing supply chains in China
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Tory Bruno—CEO of United Launch Alliance—discusses rocket reusability, SpaceX, and the economics of operating a space launch business
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The coronavirus in America: The year ahead
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Millennials are now the new lost generation
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Denmark may issue securities in foreign currencies for the first time in years to finance programs to support the economy through the coronavirus crisis
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Why this is unlike the Great Depression (better & worse)
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The global dollar short squeeze
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