The Christian Science Monitor

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Patience is often thought of in terms of social interactions. But the ability to bide one’s time also plays into national economics.

Facility Management

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McKinsey has found that only 23 percent of companies use a formal process to put into operation important strategic decisions. In 52 percent of companies, these decisions are made by a small senior group and poorly communicated to the rest of the org

NZ Property Investor

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FIRE is an acronym for Financial Independence, Retire Early. The basic premise is that FIRE is attained by aggressive saving – for example, if you’re saving 50% of your annual income it will result in a year of living expenses for retirement. Some de

Fast Ford

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Spares cars can cost less, but a repairable Cabrio should start at around £1000, with (just) roadworthy examples for double that price, and usable cars for around £3000. Value decent bodywork higher than spec or mechanical components. Tidy cars start

India Today

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The present government got rid of two excellent economists—Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian. It has presided over the worst economic downturn in a quarter century. Its ministers keep saying the crisis will be over soon, that good times are comin

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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Here's a thought experiment for you. Would you rather have a Princeton education, or do without the education but get the Princeton diploma? Economist Bryan Caplan posed this question a couple of years ago in his provocative book, "The Case Against E

Inc.

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THE EIGHT-YEAR economic recovery has been unevenly spread. Rising housing costs can be a drag on growth, because they deter worker mobility. And housing supply lags demand. To make sense of it all, Mark Fleming, chief economist for title insurer Firs

Kiplinger

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Industrials stocks have been slammed so far in 2020, and that has Wall Street's analysts pounding the table for select names in the beaten-down sector. There's little wonder why. The sweeping coronavirus pandemic and related lockdowns have derailed e

Farmer's Weekly

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Striking a balance between economic realities and political issues was the biggest difficulty facing South Africa’s grain producers at present, according to Derek Mathews, newly elected Grain SA chairperson. Speaking to Farmer’s Weekly, he said dwind

ThinkSales

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1 How do you prepare your executive team for strategy planning? The real challenge is to properly formulate what the challenge is that needs to be solved: making sure everyone agrees what this challenge is and that they have all the relevant informat

Entrepreneur

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I'm convinced that more people would achieve financial success if they managed their home economics as if they were running a small business. As a business owner, you do snap cost/benefit analysis on nearly every decision you make, but for some reaso

Dumbo Feather

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My father taught many subjects, but he specialised in economics. He really did love it and encouraged me in high school to learn about all things supply and demand. It was not an unreasonable suggestion, but like any normal adolescent I used it as an

TechLife News

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U.S. orders for big-ticket factory goods plunged for the second straight month in April as the coronavirus pandemic hammered the economy. The Commerce Department said Thursday that orders for durable goods dropped 17.2% last month after falling 16.6%

Entrepreneur

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After raking in $100,000 every month, competitors opened up nearby, resulting in high times fading.

Money Magazine

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Six out of 10 experts say now is not a good time to buy property, according to research from comparison site Finder. It asked property experts and economists how much they expect prices to drop by 2021, considering the effects of the coronavirus pand

Futurity

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The economic shutdown is worth the price of the recession in terms of lives saved, according to new research. “We hope that a lives-to-lives comparison allows for discussion about the wisdom of the economic shutdown, uncluttered by differences in peo

Entrepreneur

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Cutting waste and streamlining your purchasing procedures can have a big effect on your business efficiency.

The Atlantic

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A divide is emerging among American companies when it comes to the Trump administration’s proposed border adjustment tax. For some, the tax—which would shift taxation from where goods are produced to where goods are sold—could bode poorly, since pric

Finweek - English

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keynes’ famous quip that “in the long run, we’re all dead” has been misunderstood for almost a century. Many have interpreted it to mean that he cared little about the future. But that would be a mistake. He used it to explain how the quantity theory

AQ: Australian Quarterly

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The branch of economics dealing with the performance, structure and behaviour of an economy as a whole. Government-issued currency that is not backed by a physical commodity, such as gold or silver, but rather by the government that issued it. Refers

Literary Hub

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In this episode of Keen On, Andrew talks to Tomáš Sedláček, author of Economics of Good and Evil and one of Europe’s most distinguished economists, about the reinvention of democracy in our digital age. From the episode: Andrew Keen: Tomas, I’m inter

Reason

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IN OCTOBER, DAVID Leonhardt of The New York Times published an animated chart that was supposed to show how much less progressive American tax rates had become since 1950. Back then, the animation said, the marginal income tax rate on top earners was

Futurity

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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the people who buy and sell food, including constraining supplies, spiking prices, and hurting restaurants. “The food economy has been incredibly resilient so far, but now that we’re more than half a year int

Manhattan Institute

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Allison Schrager joins Brian Anderson to discuss how risk propels economic growth and why government efforts that go too far to mitigate risk undermine America’s economic vitality. “Risk, for better and worse,” writes Schrager for City Journal, “is a

MoneyWeek

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iea.org.uk Prejudice against the moneylenders is deeply ingrained, says Philip Booth. Commentators often lament that clever mathematicians and physicists end up in the financial sector rather than becoming engineers. Lord Adair Turner, the former h

Sunday Independent

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THE NATIONAL Treasury has identified new waves of Covid-19 infections and associated disruptions to economic activity as the most serious risk to expected growth this year. Treasury’s director-general Dondo Mogajane told a group of domestic and globa

Finweek - English

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a conomics, investing and financial advice have become highly mathematical pursuits. Indeed, numerical tools and models are paramount in these arenas. But we can always do better. The new and profound lens called narrative economics has the potential

Cosmopolitan South Africa

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The house you live in isn’t really an asset (unless you manage to sell it for a huge profit, then downscale and live somewhere much cheaper). But it’s a great way to save costs on your housing over time. Usually, when you first buy a house, the costs

The Atlantic

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The 2020 presidential candidates will argue strenuously about important economic questions relevant to all Americans. These include wealth and income inequality, the design of health-care insurance, systems for financing higher education, and the rel

India Today

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While I disagree with some of their premises and recommendations, these two economists have been deeply involved in policy and institutional reforms over decades. Their book highlights the critical importance of state capacity in the success and fail