By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Updated: 22:01 GMT, 20 November 2023 Argentina is the world’s poster child for a failed economy. Blessed with abundant natural resources of grain, shale gas, lithium and a talented population, including a great national football team, it has delivered only disappointment. At present, […]
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By Johan Ahlander, Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Harvard economic historian Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel economics prize for her work exposing the causes of deeply rooted wage and labour market inequality between men and women, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. The prestigious award, formally known […]
STOCKHOLM, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Harvard economic historian Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel economics prize for her work exposing the causes of deeply rooted wage and labour market inequality between men and women, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. The prestigious award, formally known as the […]
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, the final prize of this year’s Nobels season, is set to be announced in Stockholm on Monday. The winner or winners unveiled by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences follow the awards in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace that […]
US President Joe Biden addresses the nation on averting default and the Bipartisan Budget Agreement, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, June 2, 2023. JIM WATSON/Pool via REUTERS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY Acquire Licensing Rights WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden […]
A sign of intelligence is learning from one’s mistakes. The Powell Federal Reserve does not display this kind of intelligence. Last year, it managed to produce multi-decade-high inflation by choosing to ignore Milton Friedman’s fundamental teaching that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. Yet this year, it risks […]
The Heineken Cup was universally recognised for years as the great success story of the professional era. It is exactly the same age, the first match played on Halloween in 1995, a Tuesday night, on the shores of the Black Sea, when Toulouse beat Farul Constanta of Romania 54-10 in […]
STOCKHOLM, Oct 10 (Reuters) – A trio of U.S. economists including former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke won this year’s Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for laying the foundation of how world powers now tackle global crises like the recent pandemic or the Great Recession of 2008. The trio, who […]