Economy

How the NFL Encourages Fair Competition

The NFL shows how a closed market increases competition while a free market only works for a dominant minority The NFL...
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The greatest financial lesson from the current pandemic

The lockdown due to the current health crisis has impacted everyone mentally, physically and financially. However, the financial impact from the...
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Buybacks and infinite supply of money

Stock buybacks and why we all pay for them.

We entered 2020 on the back of record-high debt burdens, geopolitical tensions, elections and a climate war. Not even 3 months...
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Demographic Economics: Studying the Changing Patterns of Consumption a...

Fundamentally, a large part of the total income of an economy comprises the patterns of consumption and savings which is highly...
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Cash is king, more potent than we think

On March 12, 2020, on the eve of President Trump declaring COVID-19 a national emergency, the New York Times reported that...
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Crisis? 3 Ways VCs Adapt

There is a global crisis going on as I write this article. It’s not the first, it won’t be the last....
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Argentina – a warning to the United States and China

One can wonder why it is that North America is prosperous, but Latin America has fallen far behind. After all, about...
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Could Modern Monetary Theory Save America?

I Become President For A Day To Apply Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) To The US Economy Politicians and academics are making...
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Science and Money in the Climate Change Debate

… if we had one There is no public debate about climate change. On Medium, where I post my texts, there...
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Will Artificial Intelligence save the labor market?

To show that the question in the title can be answered affirmatively, I am going to explore the way smart technologies...
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Using Mobile to Help Eradicate Child Labor on Ivorian Cocoa Farms

West African farmers use child labor to cost-effectively scale production of the cocoa used by chocolate companies to make chocolates. Out...
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Is Amazon Going to Fail?

Amazon has changed the world for retail. But has it ever occurred to you that one day it might fail? In...
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