Showing posts with label economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economics. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

The World Economic Forum Releases Its Top Global Risks For 2017

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CNBC: Top five global risks for 2017: WEF The World Economic Forum's (WEF) flagship annual report surveyed 750 experts to identify ...
Thursday, January 5, 2017

Look At All The World’s Global Trade In One Interactive Map

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Foreign Policy : Watch: All the World’s Global Trade in One Interactive Map It’s hard to understand the jargon-laden and math-saturate...
Sunday, January 3, 2016

World GDP rankings in 2031

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Next Big Future : World GDP rankings in 2031 Currently on a nominal exchange rate basis countries are ranked as follows 1. USA $18 trill...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

The Economics Of Engagement Rings

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Norman Chan/Shutterstock The Strange (and Formerly Sexist) Economics of Engagement Rings -- The Atlantic Diamonds are forever, but the meani...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Bureaucracy Linked To A Nation's Growth

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Two of the conquest inscriptions on Building J (ca. 100 BC). Each inscription shows an upside down head with closed eyes signifying conquest...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

Trading Shares In Milliseconds

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A monitor at Tradeworx’s offices keeps track of the net trading operations during the day. It generally ticks up. Credit: Steve Moors From...
Sunday, November 8, 2009

The Next Two US Recessions

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From The Futurist: Here at The Futurist, we maintain a track record of predicting bubbles, busts, and recessions long before they happen. F...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Does Economics Violate The Laws Of Physics?

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ECONOMIC GROWTH: Does constant economic growth contradict the laws of physics? © iStockphoto.com From Scientific American: SYRACUSE, N.Y. --...
Monday, September 7, 2009

Economists Measure GDP Growth From Outer Space

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Increased nighttime lighting indicates economic growth in Poland and Eastern Europe between 1992 (left, above) and 2002. Poland is in the to...
Thursday, September 3, 2009

How Science Can Create Millions of New Jobs

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From Business Week: Reigniting basic research can repair the broken U.S. business model and put Americans back to work . Name an industry th...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Physicists Successfully Predict Stock Exchange Plunge

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Predicting the drop (Image: Sipa Press/Rex Features) From New Scientist: WITH 20/20 hindsight, financial crashes seem inevitable, yet we nev...
Sunday, August 16, 2009

Night-Time Photos Shed Light On Growing Economies

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Bright lights, big GDP (Image: NOAA/SPL) From New Scientist: NIGHT-TIME images taken from kilometres above the Earth could help us better un...
Monday, March 23, 2009

The Physicists Killed Wall Street

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From Discover Magazine: A couple of weeks ago there was an interesting opinion piece in the NYTimes about how physicists are the harbingers ...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Chris Anderson: Web Creating Free Economy

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From Times Online: Digital technology is offering consumers better deals and reshaping economic theory, says the author of The Long Tail The...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Here's What Killed Your 401K

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From Wired News: A year ago, it was hardly unthinkable that a math wizard like David X. Li might someday earn a Nobel Prize. After all, fi...
Sunday, October 5, 2008

A Future Timeline for Economics

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The Futurist: The accelerating rate of change in many fields of technology all manifest themselves in terms of human development, some of wh...