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This tutor booking app is trying to revolutionise the way Indian parents have preferred to select tutors for their children for decades

Launched in February this year, this tutorial booking app is seeing 70% of its customers as repeat …

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CHART: Remember When Poor People Saw Their Incomes Grow Faster Than Rich People?

In 2007, the top 0.01 percent had an average income almost seven times that of 1917; the average in…

Sam Ro   


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BILL GROSS: The 'Animal Spirits' We Need For Economic Growth Currently Do Not Exist

Gross doesn't disappoint in walking through an argument that is, pretty much, only for wonks; but i…

Myles Udland   


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A 35-year-old numbers wonk is helping revive one of the financial crisis' most controversial products

Chen's no newcomer to CDOs, either. While still relatively young by industry standards, the "number…

Graham Rapier   


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Why this 2,073-foot Chinese building could be an omen of economic doom

But as "cool" as all of these buildings are, glitzy construction booms have historically coincided …

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Conservatives Have No Idea What To Do About Recessions

As with many economic issues, there is a gap between conservative wonks and conservative policymake…

Josh Barro   


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Nouriel Roubini Ordered To Remove The Hot Tub From His Infamous Party Pad

New York Magazine describes Roubini's Tribeca party pad as a "a vagina-walled downtown loft." This …

Mamta Badkar   


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'I've got a plan': Elizabeth Warren's running as the policy wonk candidate and her poll numbers keep going up

"I have three brothers - they all served in the military and I know the kind of sacrifice that the …

Joe Perticone   


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Uber Might Already Be Reducing DUIs

Good scraped the last decade of Philadelphia DUI counts (though he is a Pittsburgh native, the city…

Rob Wile   


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White House National Security Official Fired For Trolling His Colleagues On Twitter

During his time tweeting under the @natsecwonk name, Joseph openly criticized the policies of his W…

Paul Szoldra   


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White House National Security Official Gets Fired For Trolling His Colleagues On Twitter

During his time tweeting under the @natsecwonk name, Joseph openly criticized the policies of his W…

Paul Szoldra   


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Congress just got a bumper-crop of scientists. Meet the 10 new science whizzes on Capitol Hill.

Many of the incoming science experts on the Hill hold medical degrees, have worked in healthcare, o…

Hilary Brueck,Peter Kotecki,P…   


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The US's best defense against a North Korean nuke could spark a nuclear war with Russia

Russia's missile detection difficulties are well-documented. M. Elaine Bunn, the Deputy Assistant S…

Alex Lockie   


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Here's The Argument That Paul Ryan Is The Real Person Of The Year

For the past few years, Ryan built up his Tea Party credentials so that even though many House Repu…

Danny Vinik   


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These Cute Robots Will Help Your Kids Learn To Program

It's no stretch to say that computer literacy is only getting more and more important if you hope t…

Dylan Love   


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American Families Haven't Made Much Of A Comeback Since The Great Recession

While the recent housing crash played a role in this decline, it wasn't the only factor. Even with …

Rob Wile   


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Former House Speaker Paul Ryan said he wanted to 'scold Trump all the time' because he 'didn't know anything about government'

According to a separate excerpt of Alberta' book previously published in Politico Magazine, Ryan wa…

Grace Panetta   


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A map of fitness tracker data may have just compromised top secret US military bases around the world

But the most dangerous element of the heatmap isn't the aggregated lines, it's the potential to det…

Alex Lockie   


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An idea that should die after 2016: The Universal Basic Income

But it has become subject of fascination for policy wonks across the ideological spectrum because o…

Josh Barro   


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Civil society institutions 'rarely' play a discernible role in informing economic decisions: Book

New Delhi, Jan 21 () India's civil society institutions "rarely" play a discernible role in informi…

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