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JPMorgan Chase Hired 2,100 People With Criminal Records In 2018 (And Will Hire More)

The U.S. loses up to $87 billion annually in GDP by excluding people with criminal backgrounds from the workforce, said the bank

23 октября 2019 2 мин. 9117

The IMF After Argentina

CAMBRIDGE – In case you blinked, the Argentine government built up a pile of debt out of almost nothing with surprising speed, and then proceeded to default on it almost as quickly. Compared to the country’s slow-motion 2002 default, the latest crisis feels like 60-second Shakespeare. But in both cases, default was inevitable, because the country’s mix of debt, deficits, and monetary policy was unsustainable, and the political class was unable to make the necessary adjustments in time

22 октября 2019 4 мин. 10806

The Fatal Crash That Plunged Doris Duke Into Scandal

Dark Capital is a series that explores the intersection of business, wealth and crime

21 октября 2019 6 мин. 9179

Google Aims To Pitch Privacy With The New Pixel 4 And Other Increasingly Smart Devices

As Google’s latest line of hardware products promise to more seamlessly be a part of users’ lives, the data-driven giant wants to earn trust for the brand even as it collects increasingly more, and more personal, information

18 октября 2019 6 мин. 7322

The World’s Most Reputable Countries 2019

If you were given the choice between a two-week vacation in New Zealand and one in Iran, which would you choose?

17 октября 2019 7 мин. 21543

The Hooligan Spirit

NEW YORK – The late Alan Clark, a British politician of the Margaret Thatcher era, chiefly known for his womanizing and his hard-right views, once lamented to me the decline of the British fighting spirit that built empires and won wars. Half in jest, I suggested that this aggressive disposition was still there among British soccer hooligans who ransack stadiums and foreign towns. He replied with a dreamy look in his eyes that this was indeed something that “might be usefully tapped.”

16 октября 2019 5 мин. 10465

America’s Richest Women

The women on The Forbes 400 are worth a record combined amount this year

15 октября 2019 6 мин. 8989

Our Shrinking Economic Toolkits

NEW DELHI – In the natural world, humans stand out for the complexity of the tools, technologies, and institutions that we have developed. According to the anthropologist Joseph Henrich, we owe this success to our ability to accumulate, share, and adapt cultural information across generations. But just as interconnection causes our “collective brains” to expand over time, isolation can cause them to shrink. Economists should take note