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The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

~Barry Ritholtz

Topics: Bad Bad News Charming Economists Engaging Folks Good Good News Intelligent Investors Little News Often Use Work

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The biggest downside of my current job is that I have to wear a suit to work. Wearing uncomfortable clothes on purpose is an example of what former Princeton hockey player and Nobel Prize winner Michael Spence taught economists to call 'signaling.'

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Biggest Call Clothes Current Downside Economists Example Former Hockey Hockey Player Job Michael Nobel Nobel Prize Player Princeton Prize Purpose Suit Taught Uncomfortable Wear Wearing Winner Work

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Evolving technologies that allow economists to gather new types of data and to manipulate millions of data points are just one factor among several that are likely to transform the field in coming years.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Allow Among Coming Data Economists Evolving Factor Field Gather Just Just One Likely Manipulate Millions New Points Several Technologies Transform Types Years

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Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.

~Ben Miles

Topics: Capital Confine Country Economists Explaining Factors Grows How Key Labor Largely Productivity Themselves Three Why

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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

~Bill Vaughan

Topics: Adds College College Education Dollars Economists Education He His Income Lifetime Man Many Report Sending Son Then Thousands Which

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Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue that one of the biggest reasons for the nation's current obesity epidemic is that food is now so much cheaper and easier to prepare.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Argue Biggest Bureau Cheaper Chicago Current Easier Economic Economists Epidemic Food Much Nation National Now Obesity Prepare Reasons Research University

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Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

~Christina Romer

Topics: Address Economists General General Public His Minimum Minimum Wage More Obama Popular President President Obama Proposed Public Raising State Tends Than Union Wage

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In the 2013 Economists Program, we hired 51 percent women, 49 percent men. And the reason for that is that we have a draft from all over the world, and we've hired, for instance, in that group, a good number of Chinese economists - highly qualified, all Ph.D.s from the best universities of the world. And guess what? They're all women.

~Christine Lagarde

Topics: All Women Best Chinese Draft Economists Good Group Guess Highly Hired Instance Men Number Over Percent Program Qualified Reason Universities Women World

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I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.

~Christine Lagarde

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Oil could complicate domestic politics in countries with too much of it - there is a reason economists talk about 'the curse of oil,' and dictatorships have thrived in countries with abundant natural resources.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: About Abundant Complicate Could Countries Curse Dictatorships Domestic Economists Much Natural Natural Resources Oil Politics Reason Resources Talk Thrive Too Too Much

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