Israel leaps to second in “The Economist” Big Mac Index
The Big Mac Index of "The Economist" published on Friday ranks Israel second in the world, after Switzerland. The ...
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New School economist: Trump Accounts will widen America’s wealth gaps
On July 4, the federal government launched what it described as one of the nation’s most ambitious asset-building initiatives for ...
Iran war cost U.S. households $1,000 each, top economist says
U.S. and Iranian officials remain locked deep in negotiations to secure a lasting ceasefire to the war that has rocked ...
Nobel laureate economist warns AI jobs apocalypse fears could become a self-fulfilling prophesy
The disparity between the trillions spent fueling AI and the distaste of the people meant to adopt it has grown ...
The economist John Maynard Keynes predicted in 1930 that his grandchildren would be working roughly fifteen hours a week by the early twenty-first century — and the strange thing is that, technologically, he was approximately correct
It is unusual for a prediction to be half right and half wrong at the same time, but that is ...
America’s productivity boom predates AI and work from home is the reason why says Stanford economist
The American worker is on a productivity tear and it may have more to do with a surge in working ...
This economist studied 400 years of recessions. His bleak conclusion: stop trying to predict them
In the early 18th century, the American colonies suffered a depression-level economic contraction. There was no war. No financial panic. ...
America got rich and got sad. A top economist says 2020 broke something that hasn’t healed
For the past several years, Peltzman has been combing through the General Social Survey, a random-sample poll that has asked ...
A Yale economist says AGI won’t automate most jobs—because they’re not worth the trouble
The conventional fear about artificial intelligence and jobs runs something like this: the robots are coming for everything, and only ...
Chief economist cuts growth forecast
The morning after the Knesset passed the 2026 state budget, Ministry of Finance chief economist Shmuel Abramzon has released ...
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