The minimum wage: does it hurt workers? | The Economist
Joe Biden has pledged to raise America's national minimum wage to $15 an hour. Economists traditionally believed that minimum wages actually hurt workers, ...
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The World in 2021: five stories to watch out for | The Economist
The World in 2021 will start to look beyond covid-19: to the launch of an asteroid-smashing space probe, the next step in the fight against climate change and ...
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Was Karl Marx right? | The Economist
Karl Marx remains surprisingly relevant 200 years after his birth. He rightly predicted some of the pitfalls of capitalism, but his solution was far worse than the ...
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Joe Biden's top 7 domestic priorities | The Economist
President Joe Biden faces numerous domestic challenges, from rolling out the covid-19 vaccine and economic stimulus, to tackling racial inequality and political ...
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Christine Lagarde: How covid-19 will shape Europe | The Economist
Europe has been widely criticised for its slow response to the covid-19 pandemic. Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, discusses the ...
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Will covid kill globalisation? | The Economist
Covid-19 has been the third major disruption to globalisation within the past twelve years. The pandemic will not kill globalisation off, but it will deepen the cracks ...
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Covid-19: why the economy could fare worse than you think | The Economist
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The Economist Looks Ahead To The World In 2021 | Morning Joe | MSNBC
About Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough: Join Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Willie Geist, for in-depth and informed discussions that help drive the ...
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The Economist looks ahead to showdowns in 2020
If you thought 2019 was a roller coaster, just wait. The Economist is out with its annual look ahead, and if its predictions are right, 2020 could be quite a year.
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Has migration gone too far? | The Economist
Migrants from the EU into Britian are more likely to be paying taxes than claiming benefits. So why do some people think migration is harmful, and how should ...
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Can free-cash handouts help society? | The Economist
In parts of California there are plans to give people no-strings-attached cash, whether they have a job or not. It's hoped these trials could be the solution to a ...
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An economist walks into a bar | Robert Litan | TEDxKC
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Litan's talk explores the surprising role economists have played in ...
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How to get migration right | The Economist
Governments need to find better ways of managing migration. Greater freedom of movement could make the world richer, but voters need convincing.
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The data revolution: privacy, politics and predictive policing | The Economist
More than 90% of the world's data appeared in the past two years. From privacy to politics, Facebook to facial recognition – discover the true impact of this data ...
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Election 2020: What has President Trump done to America? | The Economist
In the 2020 election, President Donald Trump will be judged on his handling of the covid-19 pandemic. But what else will be his legacy if he loses? Further ...
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The changing face of tourism | The Economist
Tourism is one of the biggest industries in the world—and it's rapidly changing. Chinese travellers have overtaken Americans as the biggest spenders and ...
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How migration could make the world richer | The Economist
Many of the recent political shifts in the West—the election of Donald Trump, the rise of populism in Europe and Brexit—can be partially attributed to the fear of ...
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How can business survive climate change? | The Economist
Climate change is about to upend the corporate world through weather-related disasters, regulation and lawsuits. Can businesses react and adapt in time?
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Why politicians have failed to tackle climate change | The Economist
Global warming is the defining threat facing the planet. So why has so little been done to curb it? Read more here: https://econ.st/3gevRJu Click here to ...
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Dating in the digital age | The Economist
Over 200m people worldwide use online dating platforms and about one-third of married couples in America meet online. In this week's cover story, The ...
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Covid-19: what will happen to the global economy? | The Economist
The covid-19 pandemic has caused economic chaos and uncertainty. Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, and Edward Carr, our deputy editor, answer ...
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Covid-19: how bad will it be for the economy? | The Economist
The coronavirus pandemic has killed thousands of people, crashed stockmarkets around the world, driven 10m Americans to claim unemployment and caused ...
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GameStop: what it reveals about the US stockmarket | The Economist
The frenzied rise of GameStop's share price baffled Wall Street and panicked the US Treasury. What does the GameStop story reveal about American ...
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Covid-19: what will it take to vaccinate the world? | The Economist
The race to immunise the global population against covid-19 is under way. With the distribution of safe and effective vaccines posing an unprecedented ...
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Can flying go green? | The Economist
Covid-19 has caused the worst crisis in aviation's history. Is this the industry's moment for a green reset—and which technologies offer the best hope? Read The ...
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MH17: can Russia be held to account? | The Economist
Australia and the Netherlands say Russia is responsible for shooting down flight MH17 in 2014. The families of the 298 victims want justice—but which court can ...
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What does a cashless future mean? | The Economist
Somewhere in the near future physical money will become like these - Relics of a different age. And will only be found in places like this. In other words hard ...
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Is private education good for society? | The Economist
Across the world private education is booming. Though private schools and tuition promote inequality, Emma Duncan, our social policy editor, explains why ...
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How will quantum computing change the world? | The Economist
The potential for quantum computing to crack other countries' encrypted networks has captured the attention of national governments. Which of the world's ...
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What if women ruled the world? | The Economist
Only 6.3% of all international leaders are women. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former Liberian president and Africa's first elected female head of state, suggests ways ...
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Liberalism: where did it come from and are its days numbered? | The Economist
Liberalism has been the dominant political philosophy in the West for more than 200 years. Populists say liberals are too elite and are out of touch with ordinary ...
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How Biden can be a global leader | The Economist
Joe Biden's greatest challenge will be to repair America's reputation—currently the lowest it's been for two decades. How can the new president re-boot ...
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The true cost of fast fashion | The Economist
Millions of tonnes of clothes end up in landfill every year—it's one of the fastest-growing categories of waste in the world. How can the fashion industry continue ...
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Afghanistan: why the Taliban can't be defeated | The Economist
Further reading: “Mapping Taliban control in Afghanistan“ Long War Journal https://econ.trib.al/7T1u2aP Hub of Afghanistan coverage by The Economist: ...
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Why are music festivals so expensive? | The Economist
Today there are festivals in more parts of the world than ever before--and ticket prices are higher than ever before. Why are festivals so expensive? Read more ...
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Why is chicken so cheap? | The Economist
People eat 65 billion chickens every year. It is the fastest-growing meat product. Yet pound for pound the price of chicken has fallen sharply. How has this ...
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Where is the world's most liveable city? | The Economist
Where is the world's most liveable city? The Economist Intelligence Unit has ranked 140 cities based on their liveability. Melbourne, Australia, has been ranked ...
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Covid-19: Bill Gates predicts the end of the pandemic | The Economist
Bill Gates had long warned of the risk that a new virus would go global. Now he explains to Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, how—and when—the ...
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What is history's deadliest pandemic? | The Economist
The covid-19 pandemic may have derailed the world in 2020, but a far deadlier disease has shaped human history for thousands of years. Malaria defeated ...
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How to restore trust in politics | The Economist
In America, Britain and other Western countries, voters have lost trust in politics. Is the answer to reboot an ancient idea? Read more here: ...
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$1bn to save the ocean | The Economist
We asked Sir David Attenborough and four other leading thinkers on ocean conservation how they would invest $1bn to protect the ocean. Some of their ...
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Putin, the poisoning and Belarus: what's really going on? | The Economist
Vladimir Putin has been rattled by protests in Belarus and Russia's far east—and stands accused of poisoning Alexei Navalny, his only real political rival at ...
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