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'This is the last opportunity for us to wake up': A leading economist warns we're headed for an AI-driven cataclysm
How Daron Acemoglu, one of the world's most respected experts on the economic effects of technology…
Aki Ito
2 mins read
Flying drones in India may be 'legal' — but that doesn’t mean you’re getting doorstep deliveries
Announced in August earlier this year, the rules and regulations for legally flying drones in India…
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Here are the top books of Jaipur Literature Festival for the past decade
The air is crisp and it is the perfect weather to cozy up with a book and maybe brave the chilly wi…
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How We Can Change Banks' Privileged Place In Society
It is worth reiterating that the cost of bank debt is suppressed by government subsidies, unlike ba…
The Economist
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3 US-based academics awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for their work on wealth inequality
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson won the prize for their "studies of how instit…
Polly Thompson
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You may actually have to work more hours with the rise of AI
Some say AI could help usher in a four-day workweek, but one CEO says it could actually increase de…
Tim Paradis
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Tech was supposed to take everyone's job. We're still working. What happened?
The fear that new tech will replace workers has been common throughout history. And yet here we all…
Matt Turner
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Biden has yet to wield one of his biggest weapons in the war on Russia's economy
Blocking Russia's oil and gas exports would cost Putin $500 million a day. But it would also drive …
Mattathias Schwartz
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British people have been told to work at home and avoid all social contact in coronavirus lockdown
"Many people, including fit and active people over 70, may feel listening to what I've just said th…
Adam Bienkov,Thomas Colson
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The Fed is running out of reasons to keep raising interest rates
US economic growth "accelerated July to September only to slow back down in line with trend growth …
Pedro Nicolaci da Costa
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'The risk is very, very high, and we need to pay very close attention to what's happening in Europe'
The elections could be "hugely consequential," according to Schomer, and could have a "very serious…
Tina Wadhwa
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We should turn Puerto Rico into a haven for climate and clean energy research
"Imagine Puerto Rico becoming the electric vehicle capital of the world, with well-apportioned rech…
Pedro Nicolaci da Costa
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Here is the Hard Brexiteers' plan to scrap Theresa May's Chequers deal
2. But it says there should be a new backstop for Ireland which involves new laws. It says Northern…
Ben Gartside,Ben Gartside,Tho…
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Trump's reversal of Wall Street regulations risks another Lehman Brothers but 'on a larger scale'
"Thanks to Wall Street reform, U.S. banks have a greater capacity to absorb losses during periods o…
Pedro Nicolaci da Costa
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This congressional accounting trick is part of the reason Washington is so divided
On its face, cutting federal taxes leaves the government with less money in its pockets. But it's p…
Raul Hernandez
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Trump's budget plan makes a lot of assumptions using a controversial accounting trick
On its face, cutting federal taxes leaves the government with less money in its pockets. But it's p…
Raul Hernandez
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The pound is still flat on the canvas
Any business trips I do in the near future will be conducted with fear that my Sterling currency wi…
Oscar Williams-Grut
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France is the next big vote to watch
"These results show that the old days of left-versus-right have been replaced by a much more compli…
Elena Holodny
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John McDonnell, the Karl Marx fan who may be Britain's next chancellor, told us about his surprisingly moderate economic plan for the UK
"What I've said to John and others in the Labour Party, is look at what's going on in the stock mar…
Adam Payne,Adam Payne,Jim Edw…
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Here's what will happen on Friday if Britain votes to leave the EU
HSBC says the "main near-term economic impact to be elevated uncertainty." This will hit spending b…