Category: Links – Economics

Economics Links

Apr 30, 2014

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1. Huffington Post: Financially Speaking — Are We an Illiterate Nation? … Champlain College's Center for Financial Literacy released its '2013 National Report Card,' which quantifies what states are doing to promote financial literacy in the classroom. Only seven of 50 states surveyed came away from the study with an "A" rating. That's right, a…
Economics Links

Mar 24, 2014

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1. AEI – James Pethokoukis: What MinuteClinics and Google Fiber teach about crony capitalism … Andy Kessler explains how established Internet service providers are trying to block Google from deploying Google Fiber, its superfast, gigabit broadband service. His solution: “The FCC can change this overnight. Instead of allowing municipalities to dictate onerous terms and laws…
Economics Links

Mar 5, 2014

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1. Quartz: Globalization really means countries just trade with their neighbors 2. Business Insider: Europe's Share Of Global Profits Is At A 28-Year Low 3. USA Today: Europe widespread corruption 'breathtaking' … Meanwhile, the report, which was the first published by the EU to detail people's perceptions of corruption in the union, also said that…
Economics Links

Feb 3, 2014

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1. Brookings: Prospects for Ending Extreme Poverty by 2030 2. Carpe Diem: World trade and output both reached new all-time record highs in November and are nearly 10% above previous peaks 3. PBS Newshour: More than 200 million people were unemployed in the world in 2013 Worldwide, the number of unemployed people rose by 5…
Economics Links

Jan 13, 2014

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1. The Atlantic: If You Really Care About Ending Poverty, Stop Talking About Inequality Don’t mind the rich-poor gap. Statistical analysis shows three factors—overall income growth, marriages, and local government spending—matter most for poorer children chasing the American Dream. … … But for all the new attention devoted to the 1 percent, a new dataset…
Economics Links

Dec 27, 2013

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1. Carpe Diem: 5 Reasons Why 2013 Was The Best Year In Human History Fewer people are dying young, and more are living longer. … Global economic growth in the past five decades has dramatically reduced poverty and made people around the world happier. … War is becoming rarer and less deadly. … Rates of…
Economics Links

Dec 6, 2013

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1. Poor and Middle Class Incomes Have Increased Significantly "… Using this more sophisticated cost-of-living adjustment, which is preferred by the Congressional Budget Office and Federal Reserve Board, the increase in median household income was not 5 percent but 16 percent from 1979 to 2012. In 2007, like 1979 a peak in the business cycle,…
Economics Links

Nov 8, 2013

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1. Your personality type determines your paycheck 2. New York Times editorial: Yes, Economics Is a Science … But the headline-grabbing differences between the findings of these Nobel laureates are less significant than the profound agreement in their scientific approach to economic questions, which is characterized by formulating and testing precise hypotheses. I’m troubled by…
Economics Links

Oct 21, 2013

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1. Timothy Taylor (The Conservable Economist) has several interesting graphs on The Global Wealth Distribution 2. Britain Just Privatized Its Mail Service at a $1 Billion Discount The largest initial public offering in Europe in more than two years could have been even larger. The privatization of the Royal Mail, in which around two-thirds of…
Economics Links

Sep 29, 2013

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1. Here's The Chart That Destroys What Republicans Are Saying About The Deficit 2. The 10 Most Popular Charts On The World's Most Amazing Economics Website Here is one example: Nominal GDP (3.1% growth year over year in Q2): 3. Global trade volume and world industrial production both reached new record highs in July 4.…