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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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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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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The new scramble for Africa | The Economist
The past decade has seen a big surge of foreign interest in Africa—involving China, India and Russia. If the continent handles this new "scramble" wisely, 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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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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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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Vaping: what people are getting wrong | The Economist
Further reading: AMA urges public to avoid e-cigarette use amid lung illness outbreak American lung association report - American Lung Association report ...
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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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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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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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Covid-19: why the economy could fare worse than you think | The Economist
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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 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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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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How to prepare for the next global recession | The Economist
A decade after the global recession, the world's economy is vulnerable again. Ryan Avent, our economics columnist, considers how the next recession might ...
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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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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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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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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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How happy is your country? | The Economist
Money doesn't buy happiness—or does it? In both India and China people have become richer in the past decade, but global data reveal that greater wealth ...
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What will be the biggest stories of 2020? | The Economist
The battle for the White House, a possible global recession, Beethoven the eco-warrior, nurses taking centre stage and a controversial Olympic Games.
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Margaret Thatcher's economic legacy | The Economist
Did Margaret Thatcher's radical, widely lauded economic agenda actually spark an improvement in Britain's fortunes? Click here to subscribe to The Economist ...
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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 is consciousness? | The Economist
Understanding what consciousness is, and why and how it evolved, is perhaps the greatest mystery known to science. Click here to subscribe to The Economist ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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$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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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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Tony Blair on the future of liberalism | The Economist
Speaking in London at The Economist's Open Future festival on September 15th 2018, former British prime minister Tony Blair spoke to Helen Joyce about ...
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The world in 2050: Megachange | The Economist
Daniel Franklin, executive editor of The Economist and editor of "The World in..." examines megatrends across four main areas: "people", "life and death", ...
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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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Free trade and politics as drawn by our cartoonist KAL | The Economist
Free trade—a principle upon which The Economist was founded 173 years ago—is severely under threat. Our KAL cartoonist illustrates the state of trade in our ...
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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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America’s stimulus package: is it working? | The Economist
America has spent trillions of dollars on stimulus packages to prop up its economy in the face of the covid-19 pandemic. But is it working—and what will the ...
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