The Curious Evolution of the Sign Spinner
Something so simple can tell us so much about who we value and why.
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Recession
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The Continuing Unsatisfactory Economic Expansion
Consumer spending is up, but we still have far fewer jobs than when the recession started.
Bad Economic News Linked to Harsh Parenting
New research finds that anxiety caused by the 2008 economic crash led many mothers to switch to a less-nurturing parenting style.
Inbreeding Homophily
Globalization favors open networks, people who can do business with each other on a minimal amount of trust, and avoids closed networks, the parochial neighborhoods that only look out for their own.
Things Aren’t Looking So Good for the Graduating Class of 2013
How are young adults coping with a weak job market?
Austerity Is Hurting Our Health
New research attributes more than 10,000 suicides and up to a million cases of depression to the Great Recession.
Can Australia Keep Beating the Economic Odds?
While the rest of the rich world stumbled from crisis to crisis, Australia’s economy has steadily grown. Is the nation just blessed by geography—or have its leaders figured out something we haven’t?
The Strange Game Theory of the Sequester
The Obama administration wants the sequester to hurt immediately so the public will clamor for its reversal. But will this gambit work? Probably not.
Analysis: We Should Rethink Who Funds Basic Services
Wealthy Barrington, Rhode Island, and needy Providence provide a case in point.
Credit, the Recession’s Culprit
The more leveraged they come, the harder they fall. A new analysis from the Federal Reserve of San Francisco…