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When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage.

~Adam Davidson

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Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.

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Topics: Answers Complex Correct Discipline Economics Economies Too

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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.

~Adam Davidson

Topics: Accounts American American Government Behind Benchmark Currency Disaster Dollar Economic Economic Growth Enter Era Financial Financial System Global Government Growth History Largest Less Likely Most Much New New Era Stand System Then Trade Very Which Will World Would

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We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

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Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'

~Adam Davidson

Topics: About Alexander American Back Centuries Chaos Complaints Creates Cursed Dates Days Does Dry Even Hamilton Hardworking Hating Jefferson Largely Lover Money Nothing Parasite Same Stayed Street Sucks Thomas Thomas Jefferson Tradition Wall Wall Street

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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.

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Topics: Accounting Alien America Buying Conclude Crazy Cult Degree Down Either Entirely Four Living Might Months Need Stuff Tons Touched Weeks Weird Wrong

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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.

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Topics: Affects Education Gap Really Skills So-Called Us

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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

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Topics: Countries Crush Poor Poor Countries Powerful Powerless Rich

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Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.

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Topics: Across Around Bit Carefully Certainly Confronted Define Economists Even Fair Globe Happiness How Issues Measure Number Psychologists Series Sounds Sticky Sure Surveys Through

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Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

~Adam Davidson

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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