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From Quotes by James Surowiecki
- The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.
- Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.
- Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common…
- Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems…
- Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to…
- From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view,…
- I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets…
- Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the…
- When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.' And from 'debt' it's just a short hop…
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