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Saturday, August 24, 2019
Richard Holden, UNSW Vital Signs is a regular economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies. This […]
Vital Signs is a regular economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies. [REITs] See 2017 Hedge […]
Floraes Mallewagen (Flora’s wagon of fools): Hendrik Gerritsz Pot, c1640 (photo: Laura Blanchard), CC BY-SA Anne Goldgar, King’s College London Right now, it’s Bitcoin. But in the past we’ve had dotcom stocks, the 1929 crash, 19th-century railways and the South […]
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Larry Fink, right, shared a stage with several of the CEOs he urged to spend more time doing good. Stuart Ramson/AP Images for The Women’s Forum of New York Marina v. N. Whitman, University of Michigan Should companies be doing […]
Why the global stock market crash doesn’t really matter By Jay L. Zagorsky, Economist and Research Scientist, The Ohio State University. Another jittery day on Wall Street. Reuters/Brendan McDermid Stocks, which only recently seemed to be hitting a new record […]
Richard Holden, UNSW If 2018 pans out like some of the early commentary suggests then we’re in for a rough year. If you believe the hype, then asset bubbles abound, global institutions are under attack, war on the Korean Peninsula […]
The inventor at rest, with a Tesla coil (thanks to a double exposure). Dickenson V. Alley, Wellcome Collection, CC BY Richard Gunderman, Indiana University Match the following figures – Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Guglielmo Marconi, Alfred Nobel and Nikola Tesla […]
Skimming oil in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon spill, May 29, 2010. NOAA , CC BY Donald Boesch, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science The Trump Administration is proposing to ease regulations that were adopted […]
Bryan Keogh, The Conversation The year 2017 may turn out to be when behavioral economics entered the mainstream after a leading practitioner in the field won a Nobel prize for his work. Behavioral economics is the study of how […]
Barry Markovsky, University of South Carolina Ancient and quaint seem the days of witch crazes, demon scares and tulip manias. Instances of mass hysteria may strike you as rare events in modern advanced societies. But such outbreaks are products of […]
