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…er that will rule the world.” Likewise, the war on drugs is filtered through a mass of distortions. In the words of The Economist—a venerable British newsweekly that has been a longtime passionate advocate for the legalization of drugs—the growing, selling, consuming and outlawin...

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…n. Iran's nuclear programme appears to proceed independent even of the organs of its own state. A spoof article in the Economist last year portrayed Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, ruminating on western nations' obsessive posturing towards his country. He mused that t...

…if that find should be described as a paradox, but it was at least a puzzle. Edward Denison was another leading growth economist Solow consulted. Remember that Solow had defined disembodied growth to mean better use of existing assets, as when ships carrying coal to Newcastle ar...

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… assessment. Note: Past performance is not an indication of future returns. For further information please contact US economist Thomas Berner, [email protected] 2 Please see important disclaimer and disclosures at the end of the document. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024144

…ries. One is the technical improvement in economic indicators that signals the economy is growing again. That's the one economists care about, which is why they scour the numbers on retail sales, business inventories, purchasing manager sentiment, subatomic inflation, the mood in...

…ncy of Venezuela at the end of 1998, that oil- producing country transferred to Cuba enormous amounts of resources. The economist Carmelo Mesa-Lago calculates the annual amount of aid at its highest point as thirteen billion dollars. 6. A quarter century after the disappearance o...

… Wow! Nutrition, Mercado Libre, ISmart Foundation.* *Susan **Athey*-- Professor of Economics, Harvard University. Chief Economist, Microsoft. 2007 Winner of John Bates. Clark Medal. *Byron **Auguste*-- Director and Head of Social Sector Office, McKinsey & Co. Chm, Hope Street Gro...

…ment that we can all readily appreciate involves the quality and product improvements in smartphones. Hal Varian, chief economist at Google and emeritus professor at the University of California at Berkeley, has estimated that globally, people took over 1.6 trillion photos in 201...

…the nomination and George Herbert Walker Bush sat next to me and lightly apologized for referring to me as the “Voo-Doo Economist.” In truth, I had sort of enjoyed the handle, and told H.W. Bush that I was delighted he finally had come to join us because I needed some fellow Yali...

…rises my title promises. I love upending what we had all assumed. Fun! And all the more fun when | can show that famous economists had already seen and said some of the same things I do when we read those economists again. Surprise need not be true novelty. My free growth theory...

…et in derivatives expanded, and alarms about the dangers of this type of investment were ignored. Raghuram Rajan, chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, presented a paper in 2005 warning of a “catastrophic meltdown” and was mocked as a “Luddite” by Mr. Summers. Mean...

…million to hold a congressional district. He ran against a professor who was an evangelical Christian and a libertarian economist. He ran against a professor who raised in total $175,000. In fact, the bills from Eric Cantor’s campaign at a elite steak house in Washington, DC, was...