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The COVID Bubble

2021-03-04

With equity markets reaching new heights at a time of rising income and wealth inequality, it should be obvious that todays market mania will end in tears, reproducing the economic injustices of the 2008 crash...

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What Lifted Trump Could Sink Biden

2020-12-29

Donald Trump managed to receive 74 million votes despite countless failures for the simple reason that he presided over three years of a high-pressure economy ...

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Job Creation Is the New Game in Town

2020-11-19

Even if a successful rollout of a new COVID-19 vaccine causes the current health crisis to recede by next spring, the unemployment crisis will remain. That is especially true in the United Kingdom...

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How COVID-19 Will Increase Inequality in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies

2020-11-05

Emerging markets and developing economies grew consistently in the two decades before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, allowing for much-needed gains

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Capitalism isn't working anymore. Here's how the pandemic could change it forever

2020-10-20

Capitalism is in crisis. The pandemic could change it forever, in favor of workers and those in greatest need.

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How to Make Japan Great Again

2020-10-18

If Japans new prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, wants to emerge from the shadow cast by his predecessor, he will need to devise a compelling message

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The Robot Question

2020-08-12

Although robots that can perform human labor will put downward pressure on wages in the short term, they also will increase the rate of profit, encouraging more investment and a recovery in the wage rate....

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An Action Plan for Work-Family Balance

2020-03-09

Finding the right balance for your personal and professional life requires conscious planning, ample reflection and proper communication.

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Another Year of Living Dangerously

2020-01-25

Governments, and ultimately people, can reverse the alarming trends of 2019. But 2020 will be another year of living dangerously if short-term policies continue to be pursued at the expense of long-term vision.

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Is Tech a New Frontier for Sustainability?

2019-12-18

Financial institutions must address the issue of technological sustainability, especially with regard to data, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

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A Living Wage for Capitalism

2019-11-18

Higher nominal wages for low-paid workers can boost real earnings, increase consumer spending, and help make housing more affordable.

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How an AI Utopia Would Work

2019-07-17

After centuries of industrialism, we are now on the cusp of a technological revolution that has the potential to abolish all necessary work, giving rise to societies built around leisure and a classical ideal of freedom. The biggest hurdle to realizing su

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The Social Solution to Automation

2019-03-05

n our efficiency-obsessed society, new technologies are deployed with the single-minded objective of boosting productivity and eliminating the need for human labor

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