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Inequality and negative growth hit poor households much harder (IMAGE)
This graph shows that in times of negative economic growth like we experienced during COVID and up to now, some countries are ...
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Positive growth benefits the poor the most (IMAGE)
This graph compares negative economic growth and positive economic growth; and their impact on the poor or on poverty ...
Understanding GDP: Why Imports Don't Actually Reduce Economic Growth
The current political discussion about tariffs has led to confusion about imports and GDP. Business leaders assessing the ...
Marketplace2d
Why data on the economy doesn’t match our feelings
Leading up to the election, economic figures said the economy was doing pretty well and inflation was slowing down ...
Mises Institute4d
The Hidden Cost of Tariffs: A Lesson from Bastiat’s Seen and Unseen
We should not look just at the visible and obvious results of tariffs. We must also look at the good things that the tariffs ...
The Austin Chronicle5d
Scholars Visiting Austin Discuss the Building Blocks of a “Just Economy”
The field of economics has a physics problem. Or, more specifically, a playing-dress-up-as-a-natural-science problem, says Nick Romeo, a longtime writer for The New Yorker magazine and a professor of ...