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Conservatives love to say that having more choices is always a good thing. That's not always true, especially if some of those choices are designed to bilk consumers of their hard-earned money. Consider this article from Nobel Prize economist P...
For years, researchers have found that women who work in economics face a number of barriers to success—they’re less likely to be hired and promoted than their male peers, and often deal with more significant barriers to being published in econom...
By Business Insider on Feb 7, 2021 in: Politics, Economics
The tentative plan, which is part of Biden's $1.9 trillion economic rescue package, would expand the direct child benefits distributed to families.
By Business Insider on Jan 31, 2021 in: Politics, Economics
The proposed $600 billion stimulus package would be smaller than the $1.9 trillion plan envisioned by President Joe Biden and most Democratic leaders.
By Boing Boing on Jan 24, 2021 in: economics, shopping
One of the best parts of Wonder Woman 1984 was the present-day opening sequence, of our lasso'd heroine battling some petty crooks at a shopping mall, interspersed with clips of our villain-to-be, Maxwell Lord, trying to sell fake oil securities thro...
By Business Insider on Jan 23, 2021 in: Politics, Economics
Paul, who blasted Biden's economic agenda, said that "the people who lose their jobs first when you hike up the minimum wage are Black teenagers."...
By Things Are Good on Jan 11, 2021 in: politics, economics, green
Reagan-era economic thinking focuses on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the bellwether for how well society is doing. It’s a narrow view of the world which ignores everything except the movement of capital, yet many economists and politicia...