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Economics columnist, The Economist. My book, The Wealth of Humans, is available now.

Washington, DC
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    1 Dec 2016

    The Epilogue to The Wealth of Humans...

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  2. Sep 28

    Yeah, but most press pictures just look like dumb old photos, which is why it’s cool when one doesn’t.

    The reason news photos sometimes look like paintings is that professional photographers are skilled visual artists who, like painters, deliberately compose their images.
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  3. Sep 28

    My column this week is about rising oil prices, and why they're hitting emerging markets at a vulnerable moment:

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  4. Sep 28

    Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, but I find it utterly remarkable how completely the GOP has abandoned any principle other than the naked pursuit of power for its own sake.

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  5. Sep 21

    Had been sort of low-grade assuming Kavanaugh's old school buddy was the guy behind Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill but no that's a different dude.

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  6. Sep 20

    In this week's column, some thoughts about the possibility of using a social wealth fund to address wealth inequality:

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  7. Sep 20

    I was pretty sure those pot stocks couldn't get any higher.

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  8. Sep 20

    How is this supposed to work though? Surely if enough people believe there will be a recession in 2020 you get a recession now.

    The 2020 recession has become so consensus now. I don’t disagree given monetary pol lags, fiscal drag, other stuff, but when was the last time a consensus recession call was right? Was there ever even one?
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    Sep 19

    Read this incredible piece of journalism. Just read it.

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  10. Sep 19

    I guess I'm old fashioned, but it seems to me like political parties should seek to elevate people of strong character, regardless of the circumstances and irrespective of what rival parties are doing.

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  11. Sep 19

    "Like Toad from Mario Kart"

    Woman's perfect Tinder date with 'The One' shattered by five simple words
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  12. Sep 18

    Not that that's what America should do. But it sure beats putting up tariffs and being like, "yep, that should do it".

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  13. Sep 18

    If you're going to "beat" China, at least learn from China: export-orientated development, with lots of state support for infrastructure, skills development, technology development and application, etc. Also export-friendly currency policy.

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  14. Sep 18

    Is Trump's trade policy a crony-corporatist, import-substituting industrialisation approach? Not sure that's going to work out.

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  15. Sep 18

    Crikey

    This isn’t a river. It’s Interstate 40 in North Carolina.
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  16. Sep 15

    "So then everyone got rid of their phones, and as it turned out that was way better."

    Next Thursday, FEMA will do its first test of a system that allows the president to send a message to most U.S. cellphones.
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  17. Sep 15

    It's an anagram for "any tavern", because I like taverns.

    Tweet the meaning behind your Twitter handle. We'll start. We're Twitter.
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    Sep 15

    1/ As a former employee of - I worked there on the publishing side for ~12 years- I bought a ticket to its event, but am leaving my seat empty to join the protest outside against Steve Bannon's role in the event.

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  19. Sep 14

    Welcome to my twitter feed. Half dad jokes, half DOOM.

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  20. Sep 14

    As my colleagues can attest, this has been slowly driving me crazy over the past ten years. We will come to regret our complacency.

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  21. Sep 14

    We should all be running around with our hair on fire, trying to make sure nothing like that ever happens again. Instead, we're operating with the same basic macroeconomic system, with less policy space, and with a far more toxic political environment.

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