Economist

Let's discuss an important concept from economics, the Laffer Curve. This concept is named after the man who developed it, Arthur Laffer, a major American economist who has taught at the...

[MUSIC PLAYING] NICOLE SINCLAIR: As US macro data points improve, the single biggest threat to the stock market rally here remains the rest of the world. Deutsche Bank's chief international...

Now I have to talk about people because we already talked about so many other cool things. So I'm an economist so I will talk about people and I am a social scientist but I do work with people...

There's always this tone when you read articles about poverty, that this is this intractable problem that we barely understand, let alone, like, have the tools to deal with. We have the tools....

Chris Hill: @MarketFoolery is our Twitter handle. From Thabo Hermanus in South Africa, who very nicely tweeted a story from The Economist titled "Blinded by the Light," and the...

You don't often hear rockstar and economist in the same sentence but I think rockstar economist is a pretty good way of describing Yanis Varoufakis, the former finance minister in the Greek...

Andrew Hanlan senior economist at Westpac. It's certainly been a very eventful week and it promises to be another eventful week for the Australian economy and the Australian markets. The most...

[MUSIC PLAYING] RICK NEWMAN: I got an earful after writing last week about Donald Trump's proposals on trade. Here's a sampling. "Read your Yahoo article on Trump tariffs....

Corruption, fraud, and greed continue to dominate media here in the United States and around the world. As high unemployment and wage stagnation plague the middle class...and growing income inequality...

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