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Angus Deaton won a Nobel Prize in economics. Now he says he got it wrong on globalization.
Angus Deaton has been an economist for over fifty years. He's still rethinking his views.
Juliana Kaplan
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A Nobel-prize winning economist says the wealthy will just find a way to dodge any wealth tax
One issue with taxing the ultrawealthy to pay for pandemic losses is they may just avoid the tax. I…
Juliana Kaplan
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Angus Deaton wins Nobel Prize for Economics
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This is why Angus Deaton just won the Nobel Prize in economics
Deaton, a respected professor of economics at Princeton, does not stint on describing the world's p…
Mike Bird
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Insider Today: Meet the HENRYs
In Sunday's edition of Insider Today, we're talking about America's "high earning, not rich yet" in…
Matt Turner
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AI could split workers into 2: The ones whose jobs get better and the ones who lose them completely
AI could make you more productive or replace you at work. A new analysis sheds light on which work…
Jacob Zinkula
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Millennials said in a survey they needed $525,000 a year to be happy. Here's what a Nobel prize winner's research says about money and happiness.
If money can really buy happiness, a study found a positive link up to at least $500,000. Here's wh…
Ayelet Sheffey
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China's plan for reinvigorating its economy has the West worried, but others still see an opportunity
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has already warned China shock 2.0 could destabilize the global …
Jordan Parker Erb
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How Nobel economists spend their $1 million winnings
Nobel Prize winners won over $1 million this year. Some past laureates have used their money on eve…
Juliana Kaplan
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Money really does buy happiness for most people, researchers say
A new study that reanalyzed previous research appears to contradict the theory that happiness event…
Grace Dean
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American families are paying a hidden $8,000 'poll tax' to cover their healthcare costs, 2 economists argue
Outside pressure late last year killed a congressional attempt to end so-called "surprise-billing,"…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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American billionaires added $1.62 trillion to their wealth over the last 13 months
"We're going to come out of the pandemic another degree of more unequal," Chuck Collins, director o…
Juliana Kaplan
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Financial happiness starts at $85,000 per year
Americans earning more than $85,000 a year are happier than those who earn less, a new study finds.…
Hillary Hoffower
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A Nobel Prize-winning economist says 'non-competes' are keeping wages down for all workers
Sir Angus Deaton won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2015 for his analysis of cons…
Jacqui Frank,Kara Chin,Sara S…
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Critics say a wealth tax wouldn't work. Argentina just brought in $2.4 billion with one.
The tax targeted the top 0.8% of Argentinian taxpayers, and revenue will go to pandemic relief. Yet…
Juliana Kaplan
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A major new report into rising inequality warned that the growing gap between rich and poor is now a threat to Western democracy
The study also found that the gap in life-expectancy between poorer and richer citizens is growing.…
Adam Bienkov
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NOBEL ECONOMIST: 'I don't think globalisation is anywhere near the threat that robots are'
Addressing the theory that Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential elections was fueled by a …
Oscar Williams-Grut
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There is a correlation between 'deaths of despair' among white people and voters for Trump
"You can put almost anything in that picture, smoking, lack of exercise ... but I do think there is…