The 10 States That Should Be Most Afraid (and Least Afraid) of the Sequester's Military Cuts
The sequester is Washington's revenge on itself -- and Hawaii More »
Matthew O'Brien is an associate editor at The Atlantic covering business and economics. He has previously written for The New Republic.
The sequester is Washington's revenge on itself -- and Hawaii More »
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There's only one thing economists love more than free trade. That's telling everyone else why they should love free trade too. More »
The lawmaker behind the state's push for gold explains why he's worried about the dollar's demise More »
Long-term debt isn't a short-term crisis, no matter what Beltway insiders say More »
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If you bought stocks when Obama said to in 2009, you'd be up 117 percent today More »
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Too much demand for liberal arts didn't kill the job market. Too little aggregate demand did. More »
Forget Skynet, Hal, and every other dystopian tale of robot revolution -- the real machine menace isn't that we get overthrown, but rather replaced. At least some of us. That's the story Paul Krugman and Iza Kaminska of FT Alphaville have told about labor income collapsing to 60-year lows in the aftermath of the Great Recession. In other words, jobs are so scarce and pay so little, because machines are stealing them. That's great news for the people who own the… More »
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Norway's diaper discount ploy is, um, having a little accident. More »
Governments really can, and do, borrow forever. More »
Recoveries have been getting weaker and weaker because that's how the Fed wants them More »
Households have $833 billion less debt today than in 2008, but that's mostly due to defaults More »
Britain's GDP fell again in the fourth quarter of 2012, raising the specter of a triple-dip recession More »
Hedge fund bigwigs Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn delivered the most engaging TV smackdown in recent memory on CNBC More »
How real is Canada's housing bubble anyway? More real than any other country's. More »
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