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Top Economist: As Pandemic Recedes, a Chance to Rethink Unemployment
Canadian economist Mario Seccareccia, recipient of this year’s John Kenneth Galbraith Prize in Economics, says it’s time to reconsider the idea of full employment. He spoke to Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking about why 2021 offers a rare opportunity to rebalance the economy in favor of Main Street.
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What Earnings Calls Tell Us About Financial Risk
Analyzing corporate conference calls reveals the way that countries perceive and spread risk through the global financial system
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America Hasn’t Reckoned with the Coup That Blasted the Black Middle Class
In 1898, upwardly mobile Blacks in Wilmington, NC were terrorized and slaughtered in a violent insurrection that set the stage for Jim Crow – and the next 123 years. Hardly anyone really knows about it.