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Cuba Monetary Unification
The immediate effect of the monetary unification has been tough, leading to widespread unrest. (mambí)

The End of Cuba’s Artificial Hard Money

1170 658 Paz Gómez

Phasing Out of Dollar-Pegged Peso Triggers Devaluation

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Rice University, whose mascot is the owl, has for decades been home to two efficient-markets critics. (Rice University)

How Efficient Markets Became Academic Dogma

949 468 Fergus Hodgson

John Dobelman Delivers Overdue Critique of Financial Orthodoxy

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Guyana
In 2015, Guyana, an agriculture-based economy, found oil deposits along 193 km of its coast. (Dan Lundberg)

How Petrostate Guyana Got Caught in the Cross Hairs

1170 658 Paz Gómez

A tiny English-speaking country in northern South America, Guyana will be the world’s fastest-growing economy thanks to the massive oil reservoirs.

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Emanuel Derman, author of My Life as a Quant.
Emanuel Derman, author of My Life as a Quant and Columbia University professor. (Institute of Physics)

What Intellectuals Resent about Laissez Faire

1603 790 Fergus Hodgson

‘My Life as a Quant’ Reveals Envy of Physicist Turned Financial Engineer

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coronavirus inflation
Economists call inflation a hidden tax because it chips away at the purchasing power of a currency. (John Loo)

Why Inflation Is Inevitable after Coronavirus Bailout

1170 658 Paz Gómez

The millions of Americans receiving the $1,200 aid check in the coming weeks will feel relief now but inevitably suffer down the road, as inflation rises.

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libre comercio chile
Chile cuenta con tratados comerciales que abarcan 65 mercados, incluído Canadá, lo que representa el 88 % del PIB mundial. (Pixabay)

Libre comercio peligra si marxistas toman la posta en Chile

1170 658 Paz Gómez

Una nueva Constitución que impida apertura económica afectará exportaciones canadienses

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subsoil privatization
Cerrejón, a large open-pit coal mine in Colombia. (Wikimedia)

How to Break the Privatization Taboo in Colombia

1024 681 Paz Gómez

María Alejandra Londoño Makes Case for Subsoil Resources

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digital gdp
GDP measurements will need tweaking to account for a new economic era. (FCPP)

Old-School Stats Neglect Digital Economy

1170 658 Fergus Hodgson

Economic Innovation Has Heightened, Migrated Online

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Yale University recently changed the federal code of its economics programs to add the STEM recognition. (Pixabay)

5 Reasons Why Economics Deserves STEM Recognition

1280 791 Paz Gómez

Mathematically-Oriented Discipline Offers Students 21st-Century Skills

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